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Cecilia Menjívar
Foundation Distinguished Professor
(April 2017)
Department of Sociology Phone: 785-864-4111
University of Kansas Skype: cecimenjivar
716 Fraser Hall Lawrence, KS 66045 Email: [email protected]
Positions Held
2015-Co-Director, Center for Migration Research, University of Kansas
2015- Foundation Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
2012- 2015 Associate Director, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University
2008- 2015 Cowden Distinguished Professor, School of Social and Family Dynamics
2005-2007 Associate Professor, Program in Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics, ASU.
2001-2005 Associate Professor, School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University.
1996-2001 Assistant Professor, School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University.
9/94-12/95 Post-doctoral Fellow, RAND Corporation.
8/92-8/94 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley.
Affiliations, Appointments, Fellowships, and Visiting Positions
2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship
2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
2014-2015 National Academy of Sciences Committee on Immigrant Integration
2014 Visiting Scholar (one week), Center for Gender & Leadership, Yerevan State University, Armenia
2012 Immigration Policy Center, Washington DC, Senior Fellow (area: Immigrant Women)
2006-2008 Research Affiliate, Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life (CORRUL), Rice University
2006 Fellow (not in residence), Mexican American and U.S. Latino Research Center, Texas A & M
2006-2012 Member, Working Group on Childhood and Migration (Drexel University)
2005 Visiting Professor, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia (Fall)
2003 Visiting Scholar, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France (Spring)
2000- External Research Associate, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Education
1992 Ph.D., Sociology. University of California, Davis.
1986 Master of Arts, Sociology. University of California, Davis.
1983 Master of Science, International Education. University of Southern California. Areas: Policy,
Planning, and International Development.
1981 Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and Sociology, University of Southern California.
Workshops and Additional Training
1996 Southwest Institute for Research on Women Summer Institute, University of Arizona.
1989 University of Texas, Austin. IUPLR (training in qualitative methods). Summer.
1986, 1988 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Summer ICPSR (advanced quantitative methods).
1985-86 Graduate Group in Demography, UC Berkeley. Demographic Theory and methods.
1984 University of Texas, El Paso (LULAC). Training in counseling immigrant teenagers.
1983 University of California, Los Angeles. Non-formal Education and Development Seminars.
1982 Université de Genève, Faculté de Lettres, Langue et Civilisation. Intermediate-advance French language.
Publications
Books
2016 Cecilia Menjívar, Leisy Abrego and Leah Schmalzbauer. Immigrant Families. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
2014 Cecilia Menjívar. Eterna Violencia: Vidas de las mujeres ladinas en Guatemala. Guatemala:
Ediciones del Pensativo & FLACSO-Guatemala. (Adapted & translated from Enduring Violence:
Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala.)
2011 Cecilia Menjívar. Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala. Berkeley, CA: University
of California Press.
• Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association, 2012
• Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2012
• 2011 Hubert Herring Best Book Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American
Studies,
2000 Cecilia Menjívar. Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press.
• Among the 12 most influential books on the family since 2000, Contemporary Sociology 42 (3)
• William J. Goode Outstanding Book Award, American Sociological Association Family Section,
2001
• Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award, Honorable mention, American Sociological
Association International Migration Section, 2001
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title in Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2002
• Review essay in Contemporary Sociology, 33 (4): 399-401 (2004)
Edited volumes (including journal special issues)
2017 Bryan Roberts, Cecilia Menjívar and Nestor Rodriguez (Eds.) Deportation and Return in a Border
Restricted World: Experiences in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Springer International
Publishing.
2014 Cecilia Menjívar and Daniel Kanstroom. (Eds.) Constructing Immigrant “Illegality”: Critiques,
Experiences, and Responses. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press
2014 Elizabeth Aranda, Cecilia Menjívar, and Katharine M. Donato (Guest editors). “Spillover Effects of
Immigration Enforcement in Local Contexts.” American Behavioral Scientist, 58 (13) November.
2013 Cecilia Menjívar (Co-Editor with Saer Maty Ba, Michael Borgolte, Donna Gabaccia, Dirk
Hoerder, Alex Julca, Marlou Shrover and Gregogry Woolf). Encyclopedia of Global Human
Migration Vols. 1-5 (Editor-in-Chief: Immanuel Ness). Chichester Willey-Blackwell.
2012 Jørgen Carling, Cecilia Menjívar, and Leah Schmalzbauer (Guest editors). “Transnational
Parenthood.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38 (2) February.
2008 Havidán Rodríguez, Rogelio Sáenz and Cecilia Menjívar. (Eds.) Latinos/as in the United States:
Changing the Face of América. New York: Springer
2008 Adrian Pantoja, Cecilia Menjívar, and Lisa Magaña (Guest editors). The Spring Marches of 2006:
Latinos, Immigration, and Political Mobilization in the 21st Century. American Behavioral
Scientist, 52 (4) December.
2006 Cecilia Menjívar (Guest editor). Public Religion and Immigration across National Contexts.
American Behavioral Scientist, 49 (11) July.
2005 Cecilia Menjívar and Nestor P. Rodríguez. (Eds.) When States Kill: Latin America, the US, and
Technologies of Terror. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
2003 Cecilia Menjívar (Ed.) Through the Eyes of Women: Gender, Social Networks, Family and
Structural Change in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Ontario, Canada: de Sitter Publications.
*Based on special issue of Journal of Developing Societies (see below)
2002 Cecilia Menjívar (Guest editor, double issue). Structural Changes and Gender Relations in Latin
America and the Caribbean. Double issue of the Journal of Developing Societies, 18 (2-3).
Peer-Reviewed Articles (*denotes student, post-doc, or advisee at the time of submission)
Forthcoming Cecilia Menjívar, Juliana Morris, and Nestor Rodriguez. “The Ripple Effects of Deportations to
Honduras.” Migration Studies
Forthcoming Santos, Carlos E., Cecilia Menjívar, *Rachel A. VanDaalen, Olga Kornienko, Kimberly A. Updegraff
and *Samantha N. Cruz. “Awareness of Immigration Law Predicts Classroom Behavioral Problems among
Latino Youth During Early Adolescence.” Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Forthcoming *Andrea Gomez Cervantes, Cecilia Menjívar, and William S. Staples. "“Humane” Immigration
Enforcement and Latina Immigrants in the Detention Complex.” Feminist Criminology
Forthcoming Cecilia Menjívar and Shannon Drysdale Walsh. “The Architecture of Feminicide: The State,
Inequalities, and Everyday Gender Violence in Honduras.” Latin American Research Review
2017 Victor Agadjanian, Cecilia Menjívar, and *Natalia Zotova. “Legality, Racialization, and Immigrants’
Experiences of Ethnoracial Harassment in Russia.” Social Problems https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spw042
2017 *Alex R. Lin, Sandra D. Simpkins, *Erin R. Gaskin, and Cecilia Menjívar. “Cultural Values and Other
Perceived Benefits of Organized Activities: A Qualitative Analysis of Mexican-Origin Parents’ Perspectives
in Arizona.” Applied Developmental Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2016.1224669
2016 *Chara Price, Sandra Simpkins and Cecilia Menjívar. “Sibling Behaviors and Mexican-Origin
Adolescents’ After-School Activities.” Journal of Adolescent Research, 32 (2): 127-154 (Lead article)
2016 Shannon Drysdale Walsh and Cecilia Menjívar. “What Guarantees Do We Have?” Legal Tolls and
Persistent Impunity for Feminicide in Guatemala.” Latin American Politics and Society, 58 (4): 31-55
2016 Cecilia Menjívar and Sarah M. Lakhani. “Transformative Effects of Immigration Law: Migrants’ Personal
and Social Metamorphoses through Regularization.” American Journal of Sociology, 121 (6): 1818-1855
2016 Shannon Drysdale Walsh and Cecilia Menjívar. “Impunity and Multisided Violence in the Lives of Latin
American Women: El Salvador in Comparative Perspective.” Current Sociology, 64 (4): 586–602
2016 Cecilia Menjívar and Shannon Drysdale Walsh. “Subverting Justice: Socio-Legal Determinants
of Impunity for Violence against Women in Guatemala.” Laws 5 (3): 1-20.
2016 *Alex R. Lin, Cecilia Menjívar, *Andrea Vest Ettekal, Sandra D. Simpkins, *Erin Gaskin and *Annelise
Pesch. “”They Will Post a Law About Playing Soccer” and other Ethnic/Racial Microagressions in
Organized Activities Experienced by Mexican-Origin Families.” Journal of Adolescent Research, 31 (5):
557-581
2016 Cecilia Menjívar. “Immigrant Criminalization in Law and the Media: Effects on Latino Immigrant
Workers’ Identities in Arizona.” American Behavioral Scientist, 60 (5-6): 597-616
2015 *Dulce Medina and Cecilia Menjívar. “The Context of Return Migration: Challenges of Mixed-
status Families in Mexico’s Schools.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38 (12): 2123-2139
2015 *Haruna Fukui and Cecilia Menjívar. “Bound by Inequality: The Social Capital of Older Asian and
Latinos in Phoenix, Arizona.” Ethnography, 16 (4): 416-437
2015 María E. Enchautegui and Cecilia Menjívar. “Paradoxes of Family Reunification Law: Family
Separation and Reorganization under the Current Immigration Regime.” Law & Policy, 37(1-2):
32-60.
• Immigration Article of the Day” April 1, 2015, ImmigrationProf Blog
2015 William Simmons, Cecilia Menjívar and Michelle Téllez. “Violence and Vulnerability of Female
Migrants in Drop Houses in Arizona: The Predictable Outcome of a Chain Reaction of Violence.”
Violence Against Women, 21 (5): 551-570
2014 Cecilia Menjívar. “Immigration Law Beyond Borders: Externalizing and Internalizing Border
Controls in an Era of Securitization.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 10: 353-369
2014 *Jennifer Arney and Cecilia Menjívar. “Medicalization of Emotionality in DTCA: Techniques Used to
Expand the Antidepressant Market.” Sociological Inquiry, 84 (4): 519-544
2014 Victor Agadjanian, *Evgenia Gorina, and Cecilia Menjívar. “Economic Incorporation, Civil
Inclusion, and Social Ties: Plans to Return Home among Central Asian Migrant Women in
Moscow, Russia.” International Migration Review, 48 (3): 577-603. (Lead article)
2014 Elizabeth Aranda, Cecilia Menjívar and Katharine M. Donato. “The Spillover Consequences of an
Enforcement-First U.S. Immigration Regime.” American Behavioral Scientist, 58 (13): 1687-1695.
2014 Cecilia Menjívar. The “Poli-Migra”: Multi-layered legislation, enforcement practices, and What We
Can Learn About and From Today’s Approaches.” American Behavioral Scientist, 58 (13): 1805-1819.
2014 *Silvia Dominguez and Cecilia Menjívar. “Beyond Individual and Visible Acts of Violence: A
Framework to Examine the Lives of Women in Low-Income Neighborhoods.” Women's Studies
International Forum 44 (1): 184-195
2013 Carlos Santos and Cecilia Menjívar. “Youth’s Perspective on Senate Bill 1070 in Arizona: The
Socioeconomic Effects of Immigration Policy.” Association of Mexican-American Educators
(AMAE) Journal, Special invited issue, 7 (2): 7-17. (Lead article)
2013 Cecilia Menjívar. “Central American Immigrant Workers and Legal Violence in Phoenix,
Arizona.” Latino Studies, 11 (2): 228-252
2013 *Zeynep Kiliç and Cecilia Menjívar. “Fluid Adaptation of Contested Identities: Second
Generation Turks in Germany and the United States.” Social Identities, 19 (2): 204-220.
2012 Tanya Golash-Boza and Cecilia Menjívar. “Causes and Consequences of International Migration:
Sociological Evidence for the Right to Mobility.” The International Journal of Human Rights, 16
(8): 1213-1227.
Reprinted in pp. 91-105, New Directions in the Sociology of Human Rights, edited by
Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short and Matthew Waites. London: Routledge,
2014
2012 *Olivia Salcido and Cecilia Menjívar. “Gendered Paths to Legal Citizenship: The Case of Latin
American Immigrants in Phoenix.” Law & Society Review 46 (2): 335-368.
• Reprinted in Immigration, Refugee & Citizenship Law eJournal, Vol. 14, No. 67. (Lead article)
2012 Cecilia Menjívar and *Leisy J. Abrego “Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of
Central American Immigrants.” American Journal of Sociology, 117 (5): 1380-1421.
• Best Article Award, Latino/a Section, American Sociological Association, 2014
• Best Article Award, Latino Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association 2013
• Spanish translation: “Violencia Legal: La ley de inmigración y las vidas de los
inmigrantes centroamericanos.” Pp. 173-246 in Visiones de acá y de allá: Implicaciones
de la política antimigrante en las comunidades de origen mexicano en Estados Unidos y
México, Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, Roberto Sánchez Benítez and Mariángela Rodríguez
Nicholls, eds. México D.F.: UNAM, 2015
2012 *Aysem R. Şenyürekli and Cecilia Menjívar. “Turkish Immigrants’ Hopes and Fears Around
Return Migration.” International Migration, 50 (1): 3-19 (Lead article)
2012 Cecilia Menjívar. “Transnational Parenting and Immigration Law: The Case of Central
Americans in the United States.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38 (2): 301-322.
2012 *Nels Paulson and Cecilia Menjívar. “Religion, the State, and Disaster Relief in the United States
and India.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 32 (3-4): 179-196.
2012 Jørgen Carling, Cecilia Menjívar, and Leah Schmalzbauer. “Central Themes in the Study of
Transnational Parenthood.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38 (2): 191-217.
2011 Cecilia Menjívar. “The Power of the Law: Central Americans’ Legality and Everyday Life in
Phoenix, Arizona.” Latino Studies, 9 (4): 377-395. (Lead article)
2011 Victor Agadjanian and Cecilia Menjívar. “Fighting Down the Scourge, Building up the Church:
Organizational Constraints in Religious Involvement with HIV/AIDS in Mozambique.” Global
Public Health, 6 (2): S148-S162.
2011 *Leisy J. Abrego and Cecilia Menjívar. “Immigrant Latina Mothers as Targets of Legal Violence.”
International Journal of Sociology of the Family, 37 (1): 9-26. (Lead article of special issue)
2011 *Sean McKenzie and Cecilia Menjívar. “The Meanings of Migration, Remittances, and Gifts: The views
of Honduran Women Who Stay.” Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 11 (1): 63-81.
2010 *Lilian Chavez and Cecilia Menjívar. “Children without Borders: A Mapping of the Literature on
Unaccompanied Migrant Children to the United States.” Migraciones Internacionales, 5 (3): 71-111.
2010 Cecilia Menjívar. “Immigrants, Immigration, and Sociology: Reflecting on the State of the Discipline.”
Inaugural Sociological Inquiry Distinguished Essay, Sociological Inquiry, 80 (1): 3-26. (Lead article)
2008 Adrian Pantoja, Cecilia Menjívar and Lisa Magaña. “The Spring Marches of 2006: Latinos, Immigration,
and Political Mobilization in the 21st Century.” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (4): 499-506.
2008 Cecilia Menjívar. “Corporeal Dimensions of Gender Violence: Women’s Self and Body in Eastern
Guatemala.” Studies in Social Justice, 2(1): 12-26
2008 Cecilia Menjívar. “Educational Hopes, Documented Dreams: Guatemalan and Salvadoran
Immigrants’ Legality and Educational Prospects.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, 620 (1): 177-193.
2008 Cecilia Menjívar. “Violence and Women’s Lives in Eastern Guatemala: A Conceptual
Framework.” Latin American Research Review 43 (3): 109-136.
• Earlier version published as “Violence and Women’s Lives in Eastern Guatemala: A
Conceptual Framework.” 2008. WID (Women & International Development) Working
Paper Series, #290 (peer reviewed & refereed), Michigan State University: Center for
Gender in Global Context.
2008 Victor Agadjanian and Cecilia Menjívar. “Talking through the “Epidemic of the Millennium”:
Congregation-based informal communication about HIV/AIDS in Mozambique.” Social
Problems 55 (3): 301-321 (Lead article)
2007 Cecilia Menjívar and Victor Agadjanian. “Men’s Migration and Women’s Lives: Views from
Rural Armenia and Guatemala.” Social Science Quarterly 88 (5): 1243-1262.
• Reprinted in Web Anthology on Migration and Remittances (Topic 15), Richard H.
Adams, Jr., Hein de Haas, Richard Jones, and Una O. Osili, eds. NY: Social Science
Research Council, 2012
2006 Cecilia Menjívar. “Public Religion and Immigration across National Borders.” American
Behavioral Scientist, 49 (11): 1447-1454
2006 Cecilia Menjívar. “Global Processes and Local Lives: Guatemalan Women’s Work at Home and
Abroad.” International Labor and Working Class History 70 (1): 86-105.
2006 Cecilia Menjívar. “Family Reorganization in a Context of Legal Uncertainty: Guatemalan and
Salvadoran Immigrants in the United States.” International Journal of Sociology of the Family,
32 (2): 223-245.
• Reprinted in pp. 90-114, Globalization and the Family, edited by Nazli Kibria and Sunil
Kukreja. New Delhi & Kuala Lumpur: Ashwin-Anoka Press, 2007.
2006 Cecilia Menjívar. “Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the
United States.” American Journal of Sociology, 111 (4): 999-1037.
• Featured in Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Social Research, as “Between
‘documented’ and ‘undocumented.’” Contexts: Understanding People in their Social
Worlds, 5 (4): 8-9 (2006)
• Winner, Best Article Award, 2007, Latino/a Section, American Sociological Association
2005 *Michelle Moran-Taylor and Cecilia Menjívar. “Unpacking Notions of Return: Guatemalan and
Salvadoran Migrants in Phoenix.” International Migration, 43 (4): 91-131.
2004 Cecilia Menjívar and *Cynthia Bejarano. “Latino Immigrants’ Perceptions of Crime and of Police
Authorities: A Case Study from the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 27
(1): 120-148.
2003 Cecilia Menjívar. “Reflections from One Latino Field: Notes from Research Among Central
Americans in the United States.” Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 42 (1): 69-80.
2003 Cecilia Menjívar. “Religion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective: Salvadorans in
Catholic and Evangelical Communities in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Washington D.C.”
Sociology of Religion, 64 (1): 21-45.
• Featured in Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Social Research, as “Different Paths to
Americanism,” Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds, 3 (2): 9 (2004)
2002 Cecilia Menjívar and *Sang Kil. “For Their Own Good: Benevolent Rhetoric and Exclusionary
Language in Public Officials’ Discourse on Immigrant-related Issues” Social Justice, 29(1-2): 160-176.
2002 Cecilia Menjívar and *Olivia Salcido. “Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence: Common
Experiences in Different Countries.” Gender & Society, 16 (6): 898-920.
• Reprinted in pp. 123-136, Gender Through the Prism of Difference, Maxine Baca Zinn,
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner, eds. Oxford University Press, 2005
(3rd ed).
2002 Cecilia Menjívar. “The Ties that Heal: Guatemalan Immigrant Women’s Networks and Medical
Treatment.” International Migration Review, 36 (2): 437-466.
2002 Cecilia Menjívar. “Living in two worlds?: Guatemalan-origin children in the United States and
emerging transnationalism.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 28 (3): 531-552.
2002 Cecilia Menjívar. “Structural Changes and Gender Relations in Latin America and the
Caribbean.” Journal of Developing Societies, 18 (2-3): 1-10.
2001 Cecilia Menjívar. “Latino Immigrants and Their Perceptions of Religious Institutions: Cubans,
Salvadorans, and Guatemalans in Phoenix, AZ.” Migraciones Internacionales 1 (1): 65-88.
(Invited, peer-reviewed article for inaugural issue.)
2001 *Emily Skop and Cecilia Menjívar. “Phoenix: The Newest Latino Immigrant Gateway?”
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook, 63: 63-76.
1999 Cecilia Menjívar. “Religious Institutions and Transnationalism: A Case Study of Catholic and
Evangelical Salvadoran Immigrants.” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 12 (4):
589-612.
• Spanish translation: Instituciones religiosas y transnacionalismo: El caso de inmigrantes
salvadoreños católicos y evangélicos, en Istmo: Revista Virtual de Estudios Literarios y
Culturales Centroamericanos, Vol. 8, 2004.
1999 Cecilia Menjívar. “The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women
and Employment in California.” American Behavioral Scientist, 42(4): 595-621.
• Reprinted in pp. 101-126, Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends, edited
by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
1998 Cecilia Menjívar, Julie DaVanzo, Lisa Greenwell, and R. Burciaga Valdez. “Remittance Behavior of
Filipino and Salvadoran Immigrants in Los Angeles.” International Migration Review, 32 (1): 99-128.
1997 Cecilia Menjívar. “Immigrant Kinship Networks and the Impact of the Receiving Context:
Salvadorans in San Francisco in the early 1990s.” Social Problems, 44 (1): 104-123.
1997 Cecilia Menjívar. “Immigrant Kinship Networks: The Case of Vietnamese, Salvadorans, and
Mexicans in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 28 (1): 1-24.
(Lead article).
1996 Cecilia Menjívar. “Continiudad, transformación o ruptura?: las experiencias de refugiadas
salvadoreñas en Estados Unidos” Revista Mundial de Sociología (World Review of Sociology) 2:
51-84.
1995 Cecilia Menjívar. “Kinship Networks Among Recent Immigrants: Lessons from a Qualitative
Comparative Approach” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 36 (3-4): 97-109.
1995 Cecilia Menjívar. “Immigrant Social Networks: Implications and Lessons for Policy.” Harvard
Journal of Hispanic Policy 8: 35-59.
1994 Cecilia Menjívar. “Salvadorean Migration to the United States in the 1980s: What Can We Learn
About it and From it?” International Migration 32 (3): 371-401. (Lead article).
1993 Cecilia Menjívar. “History, Economy, and Politics: Macro and Micro-level Factors in Recent
Salvadorean Migration to the United States.” Journal of Refugee Studies 6 (4): 350-371.
Chapters in Edited Volumes (editor, board, or peer reviewed):
Forthcoming Nina Rabin and Cecilia Menjívar. “On Their Own: Immigrant Youth Navigating Legal
Systems.” Chapter in Illegal Encounters: Migration, Detention, and Deportation in the Lives of
Young People, edited by Deborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio. New York University Press.
Forthcoming Cecilia Menjívar. “Undocumented (or Unauthorized) Immigration.” In The Routledge
International Handbood of Migration Studies, 2nd Edition, edited by Steven J. Gold and Stephanie
J. Nawyn. Routledge
Forthcoming Cecilia Menjívar and *Andrea Gómez Cervantes. “Immigration” In The Cambridge Handbook of Social
Problems, edited by Javier A. Treviño. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Forthcoming Cecilia Menjívar, *Andrea Gómez Cervantes and *Daniel Alvord. “Two Decades of
Constructing Immigrants as Criminals.” The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Crime,
edited by Holly Ventura Miller and Anthony Peguero. Routledge
Forthcomging *Andrea Gómez Cervantes and Cecilia Menjívar. “Mass Deportation: Forced Removal,
Immigrant Threat, and a Disposable Labor Force in a Global Context.” The Handbook of Race,
Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice, edited by Ramiro Martinez Jr., Jacob I. Stowell, and Meghan Hollis
Forthcoming Bryan Roberts, Cecilia Menjívar and Nestor Rodriguez. Introduction. Deportation and
Return in a Border-Restricted World: Experiences in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and
Honduras. Springer.
Forthcoming Cecilia Menjívar. “Illegality.” Keywords for Latino Studies, edited by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes,
Nancy Ráquel Mirabal, and Deborah R. Vargas. New York: New York University Press.
2017 Cecilia Menjívar. “Spaces of Legal Ambiguity: Central American Immigrants, ‘Street-level
Workers,’ and Belonging.” Pp. 36-52 in Within and Beyond Citizenship: Borders, Membership,
and Belonging, edited by Roberto G. Gonzalez and Nando Sigona. London & New York:
Routledge.
2017 Angélica S. Reina and Cecilia Menjívar. “Understanding Intersectional Factors Surrounding Providers’
Views and Latina Immigrant Victims’ Access to Anti-Domestic Violence Services in the Midwest.” Pp. 171-
188 in Routledge Handbook on Victims’ Issues in Criminal Justice, edited by Cliff Roberson. New York &
London: Routledge
2016 Cecilia Menjívar. “Sociology: Central America.” Pp. 519-528 in the Handbook of Latin American Studies,
Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, edited by Tracy North and Katherine D. McCann. Austin, TX:
University of Texas Press.
2016 Cecilia Menjívar and *Andrea Gómez Cervantes. “The Effects of Parental Undocumented Status
on Families and Children.” Children, Youth, and Families News, edited by Kalina Brabeck.
American Psychological Association.
http://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources/newsletter/2016/11/undocumented-status.aspx
2016 Cecilia Menjívar. “Normalizing Suffering, Robadas, and Marital Unions among Ladinas in
Eastern Guatemala.” Pp. 75-85 in Marital Rape: Consent, Marriage and Social Change in Global
Context, edited by Kersti Yllö and M. Gabriela Torres. Oxford University Press.
2015 Victor Agadjanian, Cecilia Menjívar, and Arusyak Sevoyan. “The Impact of Male Labour
Migration on Women and Households in Rural Armenia.” Pp. 203-217 in Armenians around the
World: Migration and Transnationality, edited by Artur Mkrtichyan. Frankfurt am Main: Peter
Lang.
2015 Cecilia Menjívar and María Enchautegui. “Confluence of the Economic Recession and
Immigration Laws in the Lives of Latino Immigrant Workers in the United States.” Pp. 105-126
in Immigrant Vulnerability and Resilience: Comparative Perspectives on Latin American
Immigrants During the Great Recession, edited by María Aysa-Lastra and Lorenzo Cachón.
Springer
2015 Cecilia Menjívar. “Central American Immigrant Workers: How Legal Status Shapes the Labor
Market Experience.” Pp. 3-28 in Immigration and Work (Research in the Sociology of Work),
Vol. 27, edited by Jody Agius Vallejo. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
2014 Cecilia Menjívar. “Implementing a Multilayered Immigration System: The Case of Arizona.” Pp.
179204 in Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States: Understanding the
Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration, edited by Lois A. Lorentzen. Santa
Barbara, CA: Praeger.
2014 Cecilia Menjívar. “Sociology: Central America.” Pp. 47-59 in the Handbook of Latin American
Studies, Vol., 69, Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, edited by Tracy North and
Katherine D. McCann. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
2014 *Bruce Rogers and Cecilia Menjívar. “Simulating the Social Networks and Interactions of Poor
Immigrants.” Pp. 336-355 in Mixed Methods Social Networks Research: Design and
Applications, edited by Silvia Dominguez and Betina Hollstein. New York: Cambridge
University Press
2014 Cecilia Menjívar and Susan Coutin. “Challenges of Recognition, Participation and Representation for the
Legally Liminal.” Pp. 325-330 in In Migration, Gender and Social Justice, edited by Tanh-Dam
Truong, Des Gasper, Jeff Handmaker and Sylvia I. Berg. Heidelberg & New York: Springer
(online 9/2013)
2014 Cecilia Menjívar and Daniel Kanstroom. “Immigrant Illegality: Constructions, Critiques, and
Responses.” Pp. 1-33 in Constructing Immigrant“Illegality”: Critiques, Experiences, and
Responses, edited by Cecilia Menjívar and Daniel Kanstroom. New York: Cambridge University
Press.
2013 Victor Agadjanian, Cecilia Menjívar and *Boaventura Cau. “Economic Uncertainties, Social
Strains, and HIV Risks: Effects of Male Labor Migration on Rural Women in Mozambique.” Pp.
234-251 in How Immigrants Impact their Homelands, edited by Susan E. Eckstein and Adil
Najam. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2013 Carlos Santos, Cecilia Menjívar, and Erin Godfrey. “Effects of SB 1070 on Children.” Pp. 79-92
in Latino Politics and Arizona’s Immigration Law SB 1070, edited by Lisa Magaña and Erik Lee.
New York: Springer.
2013 Cecilia Menjívar. “Undocumented (or Unauthorized) Immigration.” Pp. 355-365 in Routledge
International Handbook of Migration Studies, edited by Steve S. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn.
New York, NY: Routledge Press.
2012 Cecilia Menjívar. “Violencia en la vida de las mujeres en Guatemala.” Pp. 211-234 in Diálogos
Interdisciplinarios sobre Violencia Sexual, edited by Patricia Ravelo Blancas and Héctor
Domínguez Ruvalcaba. Mexico, DF: FONCA, Ediciones EON & LLILAS.
2012 Cecilia Menjívar. “Sociology: Central America.” Pp. 501-509 in the Handbook of Latin American
Studies, Vol., 67, Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, edited by Tracy North and
Katherine D. McCann. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
2012 Cecilia Menjívar. “U.S. Immigration Law, Immigrant Illegality, and Immigration Reform.” Pp.
63-71 in Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2012, edited by Glenn W. Muschert, Kathleen
Ferraro, Brian V. Klocke, Robert Perrruci and Jon Shefner. Nnoxville, TN: Society for the Study
of Social Problems.
2011 Cecilia Menjívar. “Mujeres migrantes en el contexto de la globalización: el caso de
centroamericanas/os en Estados Unidos.” Pp. 173-188 in Mujeres Escribas: Tejedoras de
pensamientos. II Encuentro Mesoamericano de Estudios de Género y Feminismos, Avances y
retos de una década: 2001-2011. Guatemala: FLACSO
2011 Rogelio Sáenz, Cecilia Menjívar, and *San Juanita Edilia Garcia. “Arizona’s SB 1070: Setting
Conditions for Violations of Human Rights Here and Beyond.” Pp. 155-178 in Sociology and
Human Rights: A Bill of Rights for the Twenty-first Century, edited by Judith Blau and Mark
Frezzo. Los Angeles, CA: Sage/Pine Forge Press.
• Reprinted in titled Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader, edited by Julie
Dowling and Jonathan Inda. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013
2010 Cecilia Menjívar. “Immigrant Art as Liminal Expression: The Case of Central Americans.” Pp
176-196 in Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States, edited by Paul
DiMaggio and Patricia Fernández-Kelly. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
2010 Cecilia Menjívar. “Latino immigrants, gender and poverty in the United States.” Pp. 266-271 in
The International Handbook on Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy, edited Sylvia
Chant. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2009 *Sang Kil, Cecilia Menjívar, and Roxanne Doty. “Securing Borders: Patriotism, Vigilantism and
the Brutalization of the US American Public.” Pp. 297-312 in Immigration, Crime, and Justice,
edited by William F. McDonald. Bingley, UK: Emerald/JAI Press.
2009 Cecilia Menjívar and *Leisy J. Abrego. “Parents and Children across Borders: Legal Instability
and Intergenerational Relations in Guatemalan and Salvadoran Families.” Pp. 160-189 in Across
Generations: Immigrant Families in America, edited by Nancy Foner. New York: New York
University Press.
• Italian translation: “Genitori e figli confine: instabilità legale e rapporti intergenerazionali
nelle famiglie guatemalteche e salvadoregne.” Famiglie Migranti, ed Maurizio
Ambrosini, in Mondi Migranti: Rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazione
internazionali, 1: 7-34, 2009 (lead article).
2009 Nestor P. Rodríguez and Cecilia Menjívar. “Central American Immigrants and Racialization in a
PostCivil Rights Era.” Pp. 183-199 in How the United States Racializes Latinos: White
Hegemony and its Consequences, edited by José A. Cobas, Jorge Duany, and Joe R. Feagin.
Boulder & London: Paradigm Publishers.
• Reprinted in the 2nd edition of the volume, published by Routledge, New York, 2016
2008 Cecilia Menjívar and Rubén G. Rumbaut. “Rights of Migrants.” Pp. 60-74 in The Leading Rogue
State: The United States and Human Rights, edited by Judith Blau, David L. Brunsma, Alberto
Moncada, and Catherine Zimmer. Boulder, CO & London: Paradigm Publishers.
2008 Havidán Rodríguez, Rogelio Saénz, and Cecilia Menjívar. “Preface.” Pp. xv-xxiii in Latinos/as in
the United States: Changing the Face of América. New York: Springer
2007 Cecilia Menjívar. “Salvadorans.” Pp. 412-420 in The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration
Since 1965,” edited by Mary Waters C. and Reed Ueda. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press.
2006 Cecilia Menjívar. “Serving Christ in the Borderlands: Faith Workers Respond to Border
Violence.” Pp. 104-121 in Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants, edited by Pierrette
Hondagneu-Sotelo. Rutgers University Press.
2006 *Sang Hea Kil and Cecilia Menjívar. “The “War on the Border:” The Criminalization of
Immigrants and the Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Pp. 164-188 in Immigration and
Crime: Ethnicity, Race and Violence, edited by Ramiro Martinez, Jr. and Abel Valenzuela, Jr.
New York University Press.
2005 Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez. “State Terror in the U.S.-Latin American Interstate
Regime. Pp. 3-27 in When States Kill: Terror in the U.S.-Latin American Interstate Regime,
edited by Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez. Austin: University of Texas Press.
2005 Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez. “New Responses to State Terror.” Pp. 335-346 in When
States Kill: Terror in the U.S.-Latin American Interstate Regime, edited by Cecilia Menjívar and
Néstor Rodríguez. Austin: University of Texas Press.
2005 Cecilia Menjívar. “Immigrants and Refugees.” Pp. 307-318 in Companion to Gender Studies,
edited by Philomena Essed, David Theo Goldberg, and Audrey Kobayashi. London: Blackwell
Publishers.
2004 Cecilia Menjívar. “El Salvador.” Pp. 155-171 in Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean,
edited by Cynthia Margarita Tompkins and Kristen Sternberg. Westford, Conn: Greenwood Press.
2004 Flavio Francisco Marsiglia and Cecilia Menjívar. “Nicaraguan and Salvadoran Children and
Families,” Pp. 253-273 in Culturally Competent Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Children
and Families, edited by Rowena Fong. New York: Guilford Publications.
2002 Cecilia Menjívar and Lisa Magaña. “Immigration to Arizona: Diversity and Change.” Pp. 53-71
in Arizona Hispanics: The Evolution of Influence, 81st Arizona Town Hall, edited by Louis
Olivas. Tempe: Arizona State University.
• Reprinted in Arizona as a Border State—Competing in the Global Economy, 86th Arizona
Town Hall, 2005.
2002 Geeta Chowdhry and Cecilia Menjívar. “(En)Gendering Development, Race(ing) Women’s
Studies: Core Issues in Teaching Gender and Development.” Pp. 133-152 in Encompassing
Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women’s Studies, edited by Mary L.Lay, Janice
Monk, and Deborah S. Rosenfelt. New York: The Feminist Press.
1999 Cecilia Menjívar. “Salvadorans and Nicaraguans: Refugees Become Workers.” Pp. 232-253 in
Illegal Immigration in America: A Reference Handbook, edited by David Haines and Karen E.
Rosenblum. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
1992 Anita Leal and Cecilia Menjívar. “Xenophobia or Xenophilia?: Hispanic Women in Higher
Education,”. Pp. 93-103 in Perspectives on Minority Women in Higher Education, edited by L.B.
Welch. New York, Westport & London: Praeger.
Encyclopedia Contributions (board of editors reviewed)
Forthcoming *Haruna Fukui and Cecilia Menjívar. “Gender and Social Networks of Migrants.”
Encyclopedia of Migration, edited by Susan K. Brown and Frank D. Bean, Springer Reference
2016 Leisy Abrego and Cecilia Menjívar. “Immigration in the United States.” Encyclopedia of Family
Studies, edited by Constance L. Shehan, Willey-Blackwell DOI: 10.1002/9781119085621.wbefs006
2016 Cecilia Menjívar. “Salvadorans Immigrants to the United States.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. doi: 10.1002/9781118663202.wberen084
2016 Cecilia Menjívar. “Guatemalan Immigrants to the United States” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. doi: 10.1002/9781118663202.wberen083
2015 Cecilia Menjívar. “Migrant Children: and the U.S. Crisis of Policy” (Special Report: World
Affairs). Pp 370-371in Book of the Year, Events of 2014, edited by Karen Sparks. Encyclopedia
Britannica.
2013 Cecilia Menjívar. “Immigrant Workers.” Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 1: 415-420,
edited by Vicki Smith. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
2013 Cecilia Menjívar “Salvadorans” ABC-Clio Encyclopedia of American Immigration, edited by
Elliott R. Barkan.
2013 Cecilia Menjívar. “Central America: Gender and Migration.” Pp. 897-901 in Encyclopedia of
Global Human Migration, Vol. 2, edited by Immanuel Ness et al. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.
2013 Cecilia Menjívar. “Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Migration.” Pp. 1251-1256 in Encyclopedia of
Global Human Migration, Vol. 3, edited by Immanuel Ness et al. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.
2009 Cecilia Menjívar. “Children and Immigration: Historical and Cultural Perspectives.” Pp. 481-484
in The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion, edited by Richard A. Shweder, with Thomas R.
Bidell, Anne C. Dailey, Suzanne D. Dixon, Peggy J. Miller, and John Modell. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press
2008 Cecilia Menjívar. “Central Americans.” Pp. 278-282 in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 3 vols.
ed. by John Hartwell Moore. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA
2006 Cecilia Menjívar. “Social Networks.” Pp. 313-316 in Immigration in America Today: An
Encyclopedia, edited by James Loucky, Jeanne Armstrong, and Larry J. Estrada. Westport CT:
Greenwood.
2006 Cecilia Menjívar. “Central Americans.” Pp. 134-137 in Latinas in the United States: A Historical
Encyclopedia, Volume 1, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol. Indiana
University Press.
2005 Cecilia Menjívar. “Central Americans.” Pp. 294-303 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and
Latinas in the United States (Vol.1), edited by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González. Oxford,
England: Oxford University Press.
Reprinted in pp. 129-134, Encyclopedia of Latino/as in Politics, Law, and Social Movements, edited
by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González, Oxford University Press, 2016.
2001 Cecilia Menjívar. “Central America.” Pp. 1099-1108 in Encyclopedia of American Immigration,
edited by James Ciment. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe.
2000 Menjívar, Cecilia. “Immigration.” Pp. 1123-1126 in Routledge International Encyclopedia of
Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge, Volume 3, edited by Cheris Kramarae and Dale
Spender. New York: Routledge.
Preface, Essays & Commentary
Forthcoming Cecilia Menjívar “Studying Central Americans in Latino Studies.” Latino Studies
2017 Cecilia Menjívar. Preface. Pp. xi-xv in Violence and Crime in Latin America: Representations
and Politics, edited by Gema Santamaria and David Carey Jr. Oklahoma University Press.
2016 Cecilia Menjívar. Review essay, Everyday Illegal, based on Everyday Illegal: When Policies
Undermine Immigrant Families, by Joanna Dreby. Sociological Forum, 31 (3): 724-728
2016 (with Peter Rolhoff and others) “Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining
Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities.” Global Health Science & Practice, 4 (2): 342-345
2013 Cecilia Menjívar. “When Immigration Policies Affect Immigrants’ Lives: Commentary.” Response to
“How do Tougher Immigration Measures Impact Unauthorized Immigrants?” by Catalina
Amuedo Dorantes, Thitima Puttitanun, and Ana P. Martinez-Donate. Demography, 50 (3): 1097-
1099.
2012 Cecilia Menjívar. Comment to “Awakening to a Nightmare,” by Roberto G. Gonzales and Leo R.
Chavez. Current Anthropology 53 (3): 272.
2011 Cecilia Menjívar. “Long-term Family Separations and Unaccompanied Children’s Lives.” Response to
“Voice, Agency, and Vulnerability: the Immigration of Children through Systems of Protection
and Enforcement” by Aryah Somers. International Migration 49 (5): 17-19.
2009 Cecilia Menjívar. “Who Belongs and Why.” Response to article, “Which American Dream Do You
Mean?” by David Stoll. Society, 46 (5): 416-418
2004 Cecilia Menjívar. “Response to Levitt: Limits of Transnationalism.” Contexts, 3 (3): 5
Other Non-refereed Professional Publications
2014 Cecilia Menjívar. “Reflecting on Enduring Violence.” Society, 51 (4): 401-403.
2014 “Enduring Violence.” Gender & Society blog:
http://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/enduringviolence/
2010 “Letter from Immigrant Mothers in Phoenix.” MomsRising.org, May 29,
https://www.momsrising.org/blog/letter-from-immigrant-mothers-in-phoenix
2009 “Immigration Reform: A Country Divided, Or a Richer Society?” Religion Dispatches,
November 20. http://www.religiondispatches.org/
• Also published in Faith in Public Life:
http://faithinpubliclife.org/content/news/2009/11/immigration_reform_a_country_d.html
2008 Cecilia Menjívar. “Los inmigrantes salvadoreños en “limbo legal” en Estados Unidos.” El Faro
Académico, El Faro (El Salvador’s on line newspaper) November 26th.
http://www.elfaro.net/secciones/academico/20081124/academico1.asp
2001 Cecilia Menjívar. “‘Papers’ offer opportunity, justice for undocumented.” The Arizona Republic,
Sunday, August 5, 2001, V3.
• Reprinted in Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division Newsletter, SSSP, Fall 2001.
2001 Cecilia Menjívar. “Latino Immigrants and Views of Crime and Police Authorities in the Phoenix
Metropolitan Area.” World on the Move, Newsletter of the International Migration Section,
American Sociological Association, Volume 7, Number 2. (Spring)
Working Papers, Reports and Conference Proceedings
2015 Waters, M., & Pineau, M.G. (2015). (Eds.) (Contributor). The Integration of Immigrants into
American Society, Report of the Committee on Immigrant Integration, National Academy of
Sciences, Engineering, Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. (Peer reviewed)
2015 Cecilia Menjívar. “Country Conditions: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.”
Prepared for Women on the Run report. Washington DC: UNHCR
2013 Cecilia Menjívar and William P. Simmons. “Insecure Communities in Maricopa County: Latino
Perceptions of Police Involvement in Immigration Enforcement.” Report prepared for the
National Day Labor Organizing Network/Puente, presented at the Insecure Communities and
Community Mistrust forum, Phoenix, AZ, December 11th.
2013 Cecilia Menjívar and Olivia Salcido. “Gendered Paths to Legal Status: The Case of Latin American
Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona.” (Special Report) Washington, DC: Immigration Policy Center,
American Immigration Council. http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/special-reports/gendered-
paths-legalstatus-case-latin-american-immigrants-phoenix-arizona
2012 Cecilia Menjívar and Leisy Abrego. “Legal Violence in the Lives of Immigrants: How Immigration
Enforcement Affects Families, Schools, and Workplaces.” Washington, DC: Center for American
Progress. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/report/2012/12/11/47533/legal-
violencein-the-lives-of-immigrants/
2008 Cecilia Menjívar. “Unaccompanied Migrant Children: A First Step at Mapping What We Know.”
Report prepared for FUNDEMEX, ASU’s Office of the President, and the Office of the First
Lady of Mexico. April 27th. (CePoD Working Paper #2008-108)
2005 Cecilia Menjívar. “Migraciones y Transformaciones en la Familia.” (Chapter 7). Informe sobre
Desarrollo Humano (Human Development Report), United Nations Development Program, San
Salvador, El Salvador. http://www.desarrollohumano.org.sv/migraciones
2000 Cecilia Menjívar. “Networks and Religious Communities Among Salvadoran Immigrants in San
Francisco, Washington D.C., and Phoenix.” Center for Comparative Immigration Studies,
University of California, San Diego, Working Paper No. 25.
1999 Cecilia Menjívar et al. “Contemporary Latino Migration to the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.”
Report presented to the Center for Urban Inquiry, Arizona State University.
1995 Cecilia Menjívar. “Social Networks Among Salvadorans in California.” Pp. 47-51 in Central
Americans in California: Transnational Communities, Economies and Cultures, edited by Nora
Hamilton and Norma Chinchilla. The Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies,
University of Southern California, Occasional Papers Series, Monograph No.1.
1994 Cecilia Menjívar. “Social Networks Dynamics: Implications for Salvadoreans in San Francisco.”
University of California, Berkeley Chicano/Latino Policy Project Working Paper, Vol 2, No.1.
Book Reviews (2006 to present)
2016 In Harm’s Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence, by Javier Auyero and María Fernanda Berti.
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. American Journal of Sociology, 122 (1):
292-294
2016 Skills of the ‘Unskilled’: Work and Mobility among Mexican Migrants, by Jacqueline Maria
Hagan, Rubén Hernández-León, and Jean-Luc Demonsant, Oakland, CA, University of California
Press, 2015. Ethnic and Racial Studies DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1178791
2015 Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, by Deborah T. Levenson.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Contemporary Sociology, 44 (3): 375-377
2014 Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family, and Illegality Among Transnational Mexicans, by Deborah
A. Boehm. New York and London: New York University Press, 2012. Journal of Latin American
Anthropology, 46 (1): 213-214
2014 The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking beyond the Global South, edited by Marshall Beier.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Contemporary Sociology, 43 (2): 192-194
2013 Violence against Latina Immigrants: Citizenship, Inequality, and Community, by Roberta
Villalón. New York: New York University Press, 2010. Social Forces, 93(4): e106-107
2009 Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning of the Undocumented Journey, by Jacqueline Maria
Hagan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Contemporary Sociology, 38 (6): 529-
531.
2009 God’s Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists are Working for Immigrant Rights, by
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Journal of Church
and State, 51 (1): 159-160.
2009 God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape, by Peggy
Levitt. New York & London: The New Press. American Journal of Sociology, 114 (5): 1578-
1580.
2008 Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles, by Ivan Light.
Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. Social Forces 87 (2): 1158-1161
2008 Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement: How Religion Matters for America’s Newest
Immigrants. By Fred Kniss and Paul D. Numrich. 2007. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 2007. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion: 47 (3): 522-523.
2006 Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador, edited by Aldo Lauria
Santiago and Leigh Binford. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2004. Journal of Latin
American Anthropology 11 (2): 471-473.
2006 Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe, by Kitty Calavita.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Law & Society Review 40 (4): 965-967.
Awards and Recognitions
Research and Scholarship
2014 The Victoria Foundation Eugene Garcia Research Award
2014 Best Article Award, Latino/a Section, American Sociological Association, for Legal Violence
2013 Fragmented Ties among 12 most influential books on family since 2000, Contemporary Sociology
2013 Best Article Award, Latino Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association, for Legal Violence
2012 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarship Award, for Enduring Violence.
2012 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society, for Enduring Violence.
2011 Hubert Herring Best Book Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies (PCCLAS)
for Enduring Violence.
2010 American Sociological Association Latinos/as Section Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award.
2007 American Sociological Association Latinos/as Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Award.
2007 ASU Alumni Association Faculty Achievement Award in Research.
2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles in Social and Behavioral Sciences for Fragmented Ties.
2001 William J. Goode Outstanding Book Award, American Sociological Association Family Section
for Fragmented Ties
2001 Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award, Honorable mention, American Sociological Association
International Migration Section for Fragmented Ties.
2001 Faculty Achievement Award, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University.
9/94-8/95 RAND Corporation Post-Doctoral Fellowship & Consultant.
9/92-8/94 University of California Berkeley Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
1990-91 University of California Regents Dissertation Fellowship.
1989-90 American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship (MFP Fellow).
1990 American Sociological Association Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship.
Teaching and Mentoring
2011 Outstanding Doctoral Mentor Award, ASU (university-wide award)
2002 Outstanding Mentor Award, Graduate Women’s Association, Arizona State University.
2002 Nominee, Outstanding Doctoral Mentor Award, Graduate College, Arizona State University.
2001 Student Affairs Honors (for enhancing the quality of life for ASU students), Student Affairs,
Arizona State University.
Other
2015 Public Sociology Award, International Migration Section, American Sociological Association
2007 School of Justice & Social Inquiry, Affiliated Faculty Recognition Award.
2006 College Marshall (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences), Fall 2006 Commencement, ASU.
2002 Outstanding Achievement and Contribution Toward Advancing The Status of Women,
Commission on the Status of Women, Arizona State University.
1983 Cum Laude, School of Education, University of Southern California.
1979-81 Member of Honor Societies in Psychology, Sociology, and Foreign Languages.
Funded Research
National
2017-2018 “Mixed-Status Families: Power, Identity, and Community.” NSF Dissertation Improvement
Grant, Role: PI (Andrea Gómez Cervantes, co-PI).
2015-2020 “Family Migration Context and Early Life Outcomes.” NIH/NICHD Program Grant #
P01HD080659. Role: Co-Investigator, with others (Program Director: Jennifer Glick).
2014 American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Travel Grant to ISA, $1,500
2014-2016 “Behavioral and Institutional Barriers to HIV Prevention Among Migrant Women.” NICHD
1R21HD078201-01 Role: Co-Investigator (Victor Agadjanian, PI)
2013-2016 “Distal Factors and Proximal Settings as Predictors of Latino Adolescents’ Activities: Insights
from Mixed Methods.” W.T. Grant Foundation. Role: Co-PI (Sandra Simpkins, PI)
2010-2015 “School-based Prevention for Childhood Anxiety.” NIMH 1K01MH086687-01A1
Role: Qualitative Methods Consultant/Expert (Armando Piña, PI)
2008-2013. “Childbearing Dynamics in a Setting of High HIV Prevalence and Massive ART
Rollout.” NIH/NICHD R01 HD058365. Role: Co-PI (Victor Agadjanian, PI)
2008-2009 “Direct to Consumer Advertising of Psychotropic Medications: Effects for Consumers, Physicians
and Society at Large.” NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, Role: PI (Jennifer Arney, Co-PI).
2007– 2012 “Health Disparities Research at SIRC: Cultural Processes in Risk and Resiliency.
NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, P20 MD002316-01 Role: Co-
investigator, with others (Flavio Marsiglia, director)
2006-2010 “Religious Institutions and HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care” NIH/NICHD, R01HD05175.
Role: Co-PI (Victor Agadjanian, PI)
2006-2008 “Men's Migration and Women's HIV/AIDS Risks.” NIH/NICHD 1R21HD048257-01A1 Role:
Co-PI (Victor Agadjanian, PI)
2004 “Organized Religion and HIV/AIDS in Mozambique.” NIH/NICHD Supplement to Grant R03
HD043675 Role: Co-PI (Victor Agadjanian, PI)
1995-1997 “Health Care Choices During Pregnancy and Illness.” NIH/NICHD Minority Investigator
Research Supplement to Grant R01 HD27361-06S1 (P.I. of parent project: Anne R. Pebley)
1990-1991 American Sociological Association Dissertation Research Grant
Internal
2013 “Austere Borderlands: Recession, Migration, and Contested Means of Belonging in the E.U.” PI (Co-PIs:
Megan Carney and Laia Soto-Bermant). Institute for Humanities Research, ASU. ($12,000)
2013 Comparative Border Studies Initiative ($4,500)
2012 “Mapping Affect to Understand and Impede the Reproduction of Violence in Latin America.”
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ASU. Co-PI with Cynthia Tompkins et. al. ($20,000)
2005-2007 Mexican American and U.S. Latino Research Center, Texas A&M (Immigration from El
Salvador), Co-PI (Nadia Flores, PI) ($19,500)
2006 Elizabeth Guillot Award, Sociology Program, Arizona State University ($3,000).
2003-2004 “Examining Poverty in the U.S. Southwest.” ASU Vice President for Research Office,
Co-PI with Laura Peck, Elizabeth Segal and Myla Vicente Carpio. ($45,859)
2002 “The Social Worlds of Women: Class, Context, and Culture in Rural Guatemala.” Women’s
Studies Summer Research Grant, Arizona State University. ($2,000)
2000-2001 “People in Motion Seminar.” Grant from Arizona State University to eight professors studying
immigration issues, coordinator by Brian Gratton, Arizona State University. ($2500)
2000 “The Phoenix Metropolitan Area: A New Latino Immigration Gateway.” Dean’s Incentive Grant.
College of Public Programs, Arizona State University ($4,800)
1999 “Class, Context and Culture and in Rural Guatemalan Women’s Networks.” Center for Latin
American Studies, Arizona State University. ($1,100) (Summer)
1999 “New Settlement Patterns of Latino Immigrants in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.” Dean’s Incentive
Grant. College of Public Programs, Arizona State University ($5,000)
1999-2000 “Latino Immigration to the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.” Graduate Scholars Special Grant
from the Center for Urban Inquiry to Cindy Bejarano, Eugene Arene and Emily Skop Faculty
Sponsor/Advisor/Coordinator. ($6,993)
1998-1999 “Contemporary Latino Migration to the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.” Special Grants, Center
for Urban Studies, Arizona State University. ($9,003).
1998-1999 “Family and Gender in New Settlement Patterns of Latino Immigrants to the Phoenix Metropolitan
Area.” Dean’s Incentive Grant. College of Public Programs, Arizona State University ($5,000).
1997-1998 “Guatemalan Immigrant Women’s Networks.” Faculty Grant in Aid. Arizona State University.
($5,350.).
1997 “Economic and Political Justice: Refugee Migrations in the late 20th Century.” Dean’s Incentive
Grant. College of Public Programs, Arizona State University ($5,000.).
1996 “Class, Context, and Culture: Guatemalan Women’s Networks.” Dean’s Incentive Grant
College of Public Programs, Arizona State University ($4,952).
1996 “Salvadoran Women’s Networking.” Women’s Studies Summer Research Grant. Women’s
Studies Center, Arizona State University ($2,300).
1989-1990 University of California Regents, Graduate Student Research Grant. ($5000).
1989-1990 California Policy Seminar, Technical Research Grant. ($2,500)
Keynote and Distinguished Lectures (2006 to present)
2017 “Immigration Law, Hostile Contexts, and the Membership of Latino Immigrants.” Keynote
lecture, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Arkansas, April 4th
2017 “Immigration Law in the Lives of Immigrants: Membership, Citizenship, and Exclusion?” Keynote
lecture, Center for Latina/o Studies in the Americas, University of San Francisco, February 27th.
2016 “Country Conditions for the Migration of Central American Women,” Plenary Session, CLINIC
(Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.) Convening, Sheraton Hotel, Kansas City, MO. May 24th.
2015 “Central American Immigrants Navigate the US Ethnoracial Landscape.” Rethinking Race: USC’s
Centennial Celebration Conference, University of Southern California, October 28-19
2015 “U.S. Immigration Law and the Reconfiguration of Immigrant Families.” The 2015 Albert Morris
Lecture in Sociology, Boston University, April 29th
2014 “The Reconfiguration of Immigrant Latino Families.” Bold Aspirations Visitor and Lecture
Series, Office of the Provost, University of Kansas, October 21st.
2014 “The Reconfiguration of Immigrant Latino Families in Light of the Current Immigration Regime.” Latin
American & Latino Studies Distinguished Speaker Series, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 14th
2013 “Multi-layered Legislation, Enforcement Practices, and Piecemeal Immigration Policies: What
Can We Learn From and About Today’s Approaches?” Keynote Lecture at the Latino
Communities in Old and New Destinations: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives to Assessing the
Impact of Legal Reforms Conference, University of South Florida, November 8th
2013 “Immigrants’ Lives, Immigration Laws and Reflections for Reform.” Bastian Foundation Diversity
Lecture Series, Westmister College, Salt Lake City, September 27th
2013 “A Reflection on Immigration, Violence and Vulnerability.” Cole Lecture, 31st Annual Sociology and
Anthropology Symposium, Wheaton College, Norton, MA January 30-31
2012 Plenary Session, “Immigration and Religoius Communities: Challenges to Public Life.” Society for
the Scientific Study of Religion and Religious Research Association, Phoenix, AZ, November 9-11
2012 “Borders, Migration, Community: Arizona and Beyond” Preconference, International
Communication Association, Phoenix, Arizona, May 24th
2012 “The Power of the Law: Central Americans’ Legality in Everyday Life.” Featured speaker,
Central Americans and the Latino/a Landscape: New Configurations of Latina/o America
Conference, LLILAS/CMAS, University of Texas, Austin, February 24th.
2011 “Everyday Violence in the Lives of Ladina Guatemalans.” ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture
Series, Kansas State University, Oct 21st
2011 “Migración Femenina Centroamericana en Estados Unidos.” Conferencia magistral, II Encuentro
Mesoamericano de Estudios de Género y Feminismos, Avances y retos de una década: 2001-
2011. FLACSO, Guatemala City, Guatemala, May 6th
2011 “Latino Immigrant Lives: Reflections for Reform.” 20th Anniversary Daniel S. Sanders Peace and
Social Justice Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 2nd
2010 “Living in Legal Limbo: Latino Immigration in Arizona.” Keynote Address, Changing Face of
America Conference: Immigration and Social Policy, San Jose State University, Oct 23rd.
2010 “Citizenship, Exclusion, and the Contemporary Immigration Regime.“ Opening Keynote Lecture,
10th conference on Globalization and Social Responsibility, St Olaf College, February 26th, and
“Gender and Families Left Behind in the Context of Migration,” February 27th.
2009 “Immigration, Citizenship, and Exclusion: Latin-American Immigrants and the Contemporary
Immigration Regime.” Alpha Kappa Delta Distinguished Lecture, American Sociological
Association Meetings, San Francisco, August 8th.
2008 “Violence Against Immigrants: The Border and Beyond.” Keynote speaker, Lives on the Edge:
Immigration and Politics Along the U.S.-Mexico Border Workshop, University of Arizona May 2nd.
2008 “Domestic Violence and Immigrant Families.” Plenary panel: “The Role of Families in
Integration.” Tenth Metropolis Conference, Halifax, NS, Canada, April 3-6*
2007 “Immigration Policy and Family Reorganization: Experiences of Salvadoran and Guatemalan
Immigrants.” Keynote speaker for the year’s colloquium series, Department of Sociology,
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, March 23rd
2006 Clossing Remarks, Latina/o Migration: Local and National Challenges, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, October 11th.
Invited Presentations/Lectures (2006 to present)
2016 “Geopolitics, Securitization, and the Definitional Question in Asylum Admissions: The Case of
Central Americans Then and Now.” Shifting Landscapes of Asylum in North America, Canada
Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, May 2-3.
2015-2015 The Integration of Immigrants into American Society Report, National Academy of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine. Panelist.
--Congressional Briefing, Rayburn House of Representatives Building, DC, March 11, 2016
-- National Immigrant Integration Conference, December 14, 2015
--National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Washington, DC, September
28, 2015
2015 “Immigration Law and Immigrant Families.” Department of Sociology, Yerevan State University,
Yerevan, Armenia, May 13th
2015 “The Reconfiguration of Immigrant Families through Law.” The Kercher Symposium Series,
Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University, April 8th
2015 “Central America: Migration Trends” brief. Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department
of State, Washington DC, January 7th
2014 Panel discussion (author meets critics) of Eterna Violencia (Spanish publication of Enduring
Violence), FLACSO-Guatemala, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala. November 18th
2014 “Immigration Laws and Immigrant Families.” OLLAS Lecture Series, Office of Latino/Latin
American Sudies, University of Nebraska, Omaha, November 11th.
2014 “The Transformative Effects of Immigration Law.” CLASS Workshop, Gould School of Law,
University of Southern California, September 29th.
2014 “Tranformative Effects of Immigration Law on Families.” Department of Sociology, UCLA, April 6th
2013 “Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala.” Department of Sociology, University
of Pennsylvania, November 20th.
2013 “Tranformative Effects of Immigration Law.” Center for Migration and Development, Princeton
University, May 9th.
2013 “Legal Violence: Short and Long Term Effects on Immigrants.” Population Studies & Training
Center, Brown University, May 2nd.
2012 “Legal Violence in the Lives of Immigrants: How Immigration Enforcement Affects Families, Schools, and Workplaces.” (Cecilia Menjívar and Leisy Abrego). Capstone event of Documenting the Undocumented Series, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC, December 11th.
2012 “Criminalization of Immigrants: Effects on the ground.” Krost Symposium, Texas Lutheran
University, October 4th.
2012 “Enduring Violence in Guatemala’s Women’s Lives.” Department of Sociology, Northern
Arizona University, September 25th.
2012 “Hyper Awareness of the Law in Central American Immigrants’ Everyday Life.” Center for Race,
Ethnicity and Politics, UCLA, April 18th.
2012 “Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala.” UCLA “Untold Histories:
Transnational Voices of Central Americans” series, and California State University, Los Angeles
Chicano Studies and Latin American Studies, February 2nd.
2011 “Living in Legal Limbo: Latino Immigrants in Arizona’s Immigration Regime.” University of
California, Merced, March 14th
2010 “A Framework of Vulnerabilty and Violence.” What Katrina Can Tell Us About Race, Class, and
Gender in These United States Meeting, Social Science Research Council, New York, November
12th-13th.
2010 “Central Americans’ Legality and Everyday Life in Phoenix, Arizona.” Center for Multicultural
Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 3rd
2010 “El impacto de las leyes migratorias en la vida de centroamericanos en Estados Unidos: el caso de
Phoenix, Arizona.” Seminario Permanente de Migración, Colegio de La Frontera Norte, Tijuana, BC, Mexico, April 9th.
2010 “Family, Border Justice, and Policy.” 7th Border Justice Series Conference, Social Justice and
Human Rights Program, Arizona State University West, March 25th
2009 “Legal Violence: Contemporary U.S. Immigration Law and Central American Lives.” Marcos &
Conceptos: A Critical Latin/a American Studies Symposium.” American Studies and Ethnicity
Program, University of Southern California, April 17th.
2009 “Immigration and Legality.” Global Initiative Speaker Series, Northern Arizona University, March 4th.
2008 “Legal Violence?: Immigration Law in the Lives of Central Americans in the United States.”
Department of Sociology, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, and Center for Research on
Latinos in a Global Society, University of California, Irvine, May 9th.
2008 “Men’s Migration and the Women who Stay.” Department of Sociology’s Workshop on
Economic Sociology and Center for Migration Studies, Princeton University, April 28th.
2008 “International Perspectives on Migration and the Family: Research from the United States.”
Family Migration Pre-Conference Day, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada April 3rd.
2008 “Central American Immigrant Families and Contemporary Immigration Law: Redefintion,
Reorganization or Breakdown?” Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University Latin
American Studies, and Center for Latino Arts & Culture, Rutgers University March 26th.
2007 “Legal Violence and the Family Lives of Central American Immigrants.” Institute for the Study
of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley, November 8th.
2007 “Immigration Policy and Family Reorganization: Experiences of Salvadoran and Guatemalan
Immigrants.” Mason Migration Project/Department Sociology, George Mason University, March 22nd.
2006 Primer encuentro de latinidades: Una mirada crítica a los movimientos y realidades de los
emigrantes hispanoamericanos en los Estados Unidos, especialista participante. Convenio Andrés
Bello, Bogotá, Colombia, Dec 15-16.
2006 “Law Against the Family: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrant Families and Immigration
Law.” Department of Sociology, UCLA December 7th.
2006 “Religion and the Contexts of Exit and Reception in Immigrants’ Lives: Observations from
Phoenix.” CORRUL/Department of Sociolgy, Rice University, November 10th .
2006 “Las nuevas familias centroamericanas en tiempos de migración.” Taller Centroamericano de la
Red Internacional de Migración y Desarrollo (RIMD), Programa de Naciones Unidas para El
Desarrollo (PNUD) El Salvador, y Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, (UCA) San
Salvador, El Salvador, June 28th & 29th.
Conference/paper Presentations (*invited) (2006 to present)
2017 “Gender-based Violence.” Country Conditions in Central America and Asylum Decision-Making,
College of Law & Center for Latin American & Latino Studies, American University, January
12-13, Washington, DC*
2016 “Legal Experiences and Attitudes of Immigrants.” Law & Society Association, June 2-5, New Orleans
2016 The Transformative Effects of Multi-layered Precarity: Experiences of Liminally Legal Central
American Immigrant Workers, Latin American Studies Association, May 27-30, New York.
2016 “Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Issues in Conducting Research with Undocumented,
Unaccompanied, and Citizen Children,” Undocumented, Unaccompanied, and Citizen: Charting
Research Directions for Children of Immigration, School of Social Work, UT Austin, Feb 25-
26.*
2016 “Is There a Role for Academics in the Support of Central American Refugees?” Plenary opening
panel, Derechos en Crisis: Refugees, Migrant Detention, and Authoritarian Neoliberalism,
LLILAS, UT, Austin, February 24-26.*
2015 Panel “The Politics of Citizenship,” Transforming Migrations: Beyond the 1965 Act Conference,
University of California, Irvine, October 8-9.*
2015 Panel “Intersections of Violence in Latin America and Human Rights Across Time and Space.”
Intersections of Violence In Latin America Symposium, Latin American, Caribbean and Latino
Studies Program, University of Kentucky, September 30th
2015 “Exploring Strategies from Scholarly Research to Expert Testimony.” Central American Refugees in
Detention: Rethinking U.S. Immigration Conference, Chicano Research Center, UCLA, September 17th
2015 “Everyday Aggression: Inequality and Feminicide in Honduras and Latin America.” Featured
Session— Enduring and/or New Forms of Inequality in a Globalizing Word, Panel 1. Latin
American Studies Association meetings, San Juan Puerto Rico, May 27-30.*
2015 “Legal Status as an Identity among Immigrants.” Migration and Identity: Perspectives from Asia,
Europe and North America, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 6-7.*
2015 “Contributions to Policy: Legal Status.” Frontiers of Immigration Research and Policy Conference,
Temporary Migration Cluster, University of California, Davis, January 22-23.*
2014 “Social Networks Among Older Asian and Latino Immigrants in Phoenix.” (Cecilia Menjívar and
Haruna Fukui) Thematic Session on Networks of Need in the Age of Economic and Social
Precarity, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 16-19.*
2014 “Multisided Violence and the State in the Lives of Guatemalan and Salvadoran Women.” XVIII
ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 13-19.
2013 “Broken by Law?: How Immigration Policies Split Families.” (Maria Enchautegui and Cecilia
Menjívar), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington DC, November
7-9.
2013 “Contexts of Exit and Women’s Emigration.” Law, Asylum, and Sending Countries panel, Crossing
Borders: Immigration and Gender in the Americas, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, April
25-26.*
2013 “Violence Against Immigrants: A Focus on Structures.” Undocunation Symposium, Center for
Race & Gender, University of California, Berkeley, February 15.
2012 “The Plurality of the Legal Context of Reception: The Case of Central Asian Immigrant Women
in Russia.” (Cecilia Menjívar, Natalia Zotova, and Victor Agadjanian), American Sociological
Association meetings, Denver, CO, August
2012 “Twenty Years of Continued Migration,” El Salvador: Twenty Years of Peace panel, Latin
American Studies Association meetings, San Francisco, CA, May 23-26.*
2012 “Legality Without Borders: US Immigration Law and Transnational Links.” [Im]Migration and
Movement: People, Ideas, and Social Worlds: A Fellows Symposium, Institute for Humanities
Research, Arizona State University, April 23rd.*
2012 “The Socio-emotional Effects of SB 1070 on Youth in Arizona.” (Carlos Santos and Cecilia
Menjívar) Equity and Opportunity Research Symposium: Immigration Policy Shifts affecting
Latino Children/Families, Arizona State University, February 23-24.*
2011 “Everyday Violence in the Lives of Ladina Guatemalans.” Thematic Session on Conflict,
Citizenship, and Development in Latin America, American Sociological Association meetings,
Las Vegas, NV, August 20-23.*
2011 “War and Peace: Enduring Social Effects of Protracted Conflicts in Southern Africa and Central
America.” (Cecilia Menjívar and Victor Agadjanian) Thematic Session on Learning from
Intractable
Social Conflict, American Sociological Association meetings, Las Vegas, NV, August 20-23.*
2011 “Immigrant Latina Mothers as Targets of Legal Violence.” (Leisy Abrego and Cecilia Menjívar)
Invited section on Treacherous Geographies of Borders, Gender, and Immigrant Communities in
the Americas, American Sociological Association meetings, Las Vegas, NV, August 20-23.*
2011 Presentation/Discussion of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala. Encuentro
Mesoamericano de Estudios de Género y Feminismos, Avances y retos de una década: 2001-
2011. FLACSO, Guatemala City, Guatemala, May 5th *
2011 “Labor Force Participation Among Aging Immigrants in the United States.” (Haruna Fukui and Cecilia
Menjívar) Poster, Population Association of America meetings, Washington, DC, April 1st
2011 “Family Separation and Immigrant Women.” “Organizations Working with Latina Immigrants:
Resources and Strategies for Change,” Institute for Women’s Policy Research/Woodrow Wilson
International Center, Washington DC, March 25th*
2010 “Central Americans’ Lives in the United States: What Can We Learn About Them and From Them.”
Surveying Social Marginality Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, October 8th.*
2010 “Liminal Legality and the Experiences of Transnational Children and their Families.” Thematic
Session on Children’s Citizenship Status and Experiences in a Globalizing World, American
Sociological Association meetings, Atlanta, GA, August 14-17.*
2010 “Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in The Guatemalan Oriente.” Republics of Fear:
Understanding Endemic Violence in Latin America Today Conference, Lozano Long Center,
University of Texas, Austin, March 4-5.*
2009 “Controlling Immigration or Legal Violence?: An Assessment from Phoenix, AZ.” Migration during an
Era of Restriction Conference, University of Texas, Austin, November 4-6.*
2009 “Economic Uncertainties, Social Strains, and HIV Risks: Exploring the Effects of Male Labor
Migration on Rural Women in Mozambique.” (Victor Agadjanian, Cecilia Menjívar and
Boaventura Cau) How Immigrants Impact their Homelands Conference, Boston University,
September 25th.*
2009 “Living on the Edge of the Law: The 1.5 Undocumented Mexican Generation and the Transformation of
Citizenship.” (Belinda Herrera and Cecilia Menjívar) Social Science Research on Immigration:
The Role of Transnational Migration, Communities and Policy, Arizona State University,
September 10-11th*
2009 “Defending Borders and the Brutalization of the US American Public.” (Sang Kil, Cecilia
Menjívar, and Roxanne Doty) American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 8-
11.
2009 “Securing Borders: Patriotism, Vigilantism, and the Brutalization of the U.S. American Public.” (Sang
Kil, Cecilia Menjívar, and Roxanne Doty) Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA,
April 8-11*
2009 “Combining Computer Simulation and Ethnography in Studying Network Dynamics, Network
Formation, and Disintegration of Salvadoran Immigrants’ Networks.” (Bruce Rogers and Cecilia
Menjívar) Mixing Methods in Social Network Research International Conference, European
Academy, Berlin, Germany, January 30-31*
2008 “Family Separation and Immigration Law: Central American cases in Phoenix, Arizona.”
Transnational Parenthood and Children-Left-Behind Conference, International Peace Research
Institute (PRIO), Oslo, Norway, November 20-21.
2008 “Parents and Children across Borders: Legal Instability and Intergenerational Relations in
Guatemalan and Salvadoran Families.” (Cecilia Menjívar and Leisy Abrego) American
Sociological Association Meetings, Boston, August 1-4*
2008 “In Solidarity: Assistance to Central American Transmigrants during their Journeys North. (Lilian
Chavez and Cecilia Menjívar) International Migration Section Roundtables, American
Sociological Association Meetings, Boston, August 1-4.
2008 “Residents' Views toward Immigration and Social Transformation in the U.S. Southwest.”
(Haruna Fukui and Cecilia Menjívar) International Migration Section Roundtables, American
Sociological Association Meetings, Boston, August 1-4.
2008 “Educational Aspirations and Documented Dreams: Guatemalan and Salvadoran Immigrants and their
Prospects in the U.S. Educational System.” The Americas Plural: Regional and Comparative
Perspectives Conference, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, June 19-20*
2007 “Rights of Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Migrants: Between Rhetoric and Reality” (Cecilia
Menjívar and Rubén Rumbaut). To be presented at the “Migration and Human Rights in the North
American Corridor” conference, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago, Oct 12-13*
2007 “Women’s Lives and Violence in Eastern Guatemala.” Latin American Studies Association
Meetings, Montreal, Canada, September*
2007 “Reshaping the Post-Soviet Periphery: The Impact of Men’s Labor Migration on Women’s Lives
and Aspirations in Rural Armenia” (Victor Agadjanian, Arousyak Sevoyan, and Cecilia
Menjivar). Population Association of America, New York, March.
2007 “Escaping Stereotypes: Older Women’s Perceptions of Old Age and Aging.” Leah Rohlfsen and
Cecilia Menjívar. Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, Oakland, CA, March.
2006 “Enduring Violence: Women's Lives in Eastern Guatemala.” American Anthropological
Association Meetings, San Jose, CA, November*
2006 “Fighting to Exist in Non-Existence: The Citizenship Process of Central American and Mexican
Women” (Olivia Salcido and Cecilia Menjívar). International Migration Section Roundtables,
American Sociological Association Meetings, Montreal, Canada, August.
2006 “Guatemalan women’s work and gender relations in Guatemala.” Research Committee 06,
Family Research, Session 10: Families in developing countries. ISA World Congress of
Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July.
2006 “Guatemalan and Salvadoran Immigrant Families and US Immigration Policy.” Research
Committee 06, Family Research, Session 06: Various family forms. ISA World Congress of
Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July.
2006 “New Family Formations and US Immigration Law.” Latin American Studies Section, Western
Social Science Association, Phoenix, AZ, April.
Conference/invited panel discussant (2006 to present)
2016 Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, book workshop for Jennifer Jones, September 7-8
2015 “Immigration and Politics.” Regular session, American Sociological Association meetings, Aug
22-25, Chicago, IL. (Discussant)
2015 “Migrations, Precarities and Illegalizations in the Americas” (Panel I). Latin American Studies
Association, San Juan Puerto Rico, May 27-30 (Panel Discussant)
2015 “Gender Issues in Contemporary Armenia: From Research to Policy.” Yerevan State University
Center for Gender and Leadership Studies, Armenia, May 11-12 (Conference Rapporteur)
2015 “Fleeing Violence, Finding Prison: The Treatment of Migrant Women in Flight from Domestic Violence
in the U.S. Immigration System.” Haury Program in Environmental and Social Justice, James E.
Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 23-24
2014 “Somos Familia: The Transnational Politics of Representation about Latino Families.” Latina/o
Studies International Conference, Chicago, IL, July 17-19
2014 “The Disappeared, Displaced and Technologies of Memory: Long-term Consequences of Armed
Conflicts in Central America.” Latin American Studies Association meetings, Chicago, May 21-24
2014 Central American Immigration: Honoring Pioneers & Charting New Paths, Center for the Study
of Immigrant Integration, University of Southern California, February 26.
2013 Trabajadoras migrantes en la frontera sur: seminario/taller. El Colegio de México, June 21-22.
2013 Penny Kanner Next Generation Fellowship Manuscript Workshop for Leisy Abrego. Center for
the Study of Women, UCLA, April 5.
2012 Thematic session, Gender and Immigration, Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, San
Diego, CA, 22-25 March
2010 Thematic session, Spiritual and Religious Challenges to State Citizenship in the Age of
Migration, American Sociological Association meetings, Atlanta, GA, August 14-17.
2010 Taller “Familias y Movilidades: Enfoques teóricos y perspectivas metodológicas”, Colegio de
México, DF, México, June 11th
2009 Unaccompanied Migrant Children Workshop/Discussion, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University,
June 17-20.
2008 “Religion at the Edge: Expanding the Boundaries of the Sociology of Religion.” Center for the
Study of Religion, Princeton University, October 3-4.
2007 Panel “The Border is Everywhere: “New” Spaces and Actors in Transnational Migration between
Latin America and the United States - Part 1, Latin American Studies Association, Montreal.
2007 “A Conversation with Alejandro Portes.” Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, March.
2006 Session “Beyond Low Wage Labor Migration: Entrepreneurs, Professionals, & Managers.”
American Sociological Association Meetings, Montreal, Canada, August
2006 Qualitative methods session and session on ethics of research. “Taller Centroamericano de la Red
Internacional de Migración y Desarrollo (RIMD), Programa de Naciones Unidas para El
Desarrollo (PNUD) El Salvador, y La Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, (UCA)
San Salvador, El Salvador, June 28th & 29th.
2006 Panel “Transnational Families.” Fourth Annual Summer Institute on International Migration,
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, June 19-23.
2006 Migration and the Arts in the United States Workshop, Princeton University, June 1-2.
2006 Panel “Voces Inocentes: Discusión sobre el largometraje.” Latin American Studies Association
Meetings, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March.
Critic on Panels
2015 Author meets-critics-panel, book, “Crime, Punishment and Migration,” by Dario Melossi.
American Society of Criminology, November 18-21, Washington, DC.
2009 Critic, Author-meets-critics panel, book “Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a
Stratified World,” American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, August 9th.
2009 Critic, Author-meets-critics panel, book “God’s Heart Has no Borders,” Pacific Sociological
Association, San Diego, California, April 10th.
2006 Critic, Author-meets-critics panel for “La Virgen of el Barrio: Marian Apparitions, Catholic
Evangelizing, and Mexican American Activism, by Kristy Nabhan-Warren. Association for the
Sociology of Religion, Montreal, Canada, August 9-12.
Courses Taught
University of Kansas:
Sociology of Immigration (undergraduate and graduate)
Arizona State University:
Sociology/School of Social and Family Dynamics:
Graduate: Seminar in qualitative methods, immigration
Undergraduate: research methods; immigration.
Graduate/undergraduate course: Gender Violence
School of Justice and Social Inquiry:
Undergraduate: Research Methods; Gender and International Development; Immigration and Justice.
Graduate: Research Methods; Immigration and Justice; Migration, Immigration and Justice; Refugee
Migrations and Justice.
Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis: 1989-1990 Instructor; 1/87-6/89 Teaching
Assistant. Department of Sociology, University of Southern California: 9/81-5/82 Teaching Assistant.
Mentoring and Student Committees (while at Arizona State University)
Post-doctoral
Amada Armenta, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Post-doctoral Fellowship, The
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2015-2016 (mentor)
Leisy J. Abrego, Chicano Studies Department, UCLA. Ford Foundation Diversity Post-doctoral
Fellowship, 2012-2013 (Mentor)
Silvia Dominguez, Sociology, Northeastern University. Ford Foundation Diversity Post-doctoral
Fellowship, 2009-2010 (Mentor)
Sandra D. Simpkins, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University. W.T. Grant
Foundation Fellowship, 2007-2012 (Mentor/qualitative methods advisor)
PhDs in Progress (Chair)
Andrea Gómez Cervantes Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
PhDs in Progress (Committee Member)
Jennifer Chappell Eckert, School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas (qualifying exam committee)
Florencia Rojo, Department of Sociology and Behavioral Sciences, UC San Francisco
Meredith Van Natta, Department of Sociology and Behavioral Sciences, UC San Francisco
PhDs Completed (Chair)
Jennifer Arney Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics (Spring 2010), ASU
Dissertation: “Prescription Drug Advertising and the Biomedical Construction of Affective Disorder:
Effects for Consumers, Physicians, and Society.”
*Assistant Professor, University of Houston, Clear Lake
Lilian Chavez Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics (Spring 2016), ASU
Dissertation: “The Migration Process for Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors: Children and Adolescents
Migranting from Mexico and Central America to the United States.”
*Assistant Professor, Mesa Community College
Luis Fernandez School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2005), ASU
Dissertation: “Policing Protest Spaces: Social Control in the Anti-Globalization Movement.”
*Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University (earlier, Grinnell College)
Haruna Fukui Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics (Fall 2014), ASU
“Social Networks of Older Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona.”
*Assistant Professor, Okayama University, Japan
Belinda Herrera School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2009) (co-chair), ASU
Dissertation: “Living on the Edge of the Law: Undocumented 1.5 Mexican Immigrants and their
Expressions of Citizenship.”
Sang Kil School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Fall 2006), ASU
Dissertation: “Covering the Border: How the News Media Create Race, Crime Nation, & the USA-Mexico
Divide.”
*Associate Professor, San Jose State University
Zeynep Kilic Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics (Fall 2006), ASU
Dissertation: “Reluctant Citizens: Belonging and Immigrant Identification in the Era of Transnationalism.”
*Associate Professor, University of Alaska
Carole McKenna School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Fall 2008), ASU
Dissertation: “Militarism: Micro-Macro Power Arrangements between Wives, Soldiers, and the Military-
Industrial-Service-Complex.”
*Instructor, Ferris State University
Dulce Medina School of Social Transformation, Program in Justice Studies (Spring 2016) ASU
Dissertation: “Immigrant Incorporation in the U.S. and Mexico: Well-being, Community Reception, and
National Identity in Contexts of Reception and Return.”
*Research Analyst, California Pension System
Carlos Posadas School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2007), ASU
Dissertation: “Women’s Translocal Networks and How they Organize Resettlement by Looking at
Specific Spheres of their Lives.”
*Associate Professor, New Mexico State University
Olivia Salcido School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2011), ASU
Dissertation: “Wolves” or “Blessing”: Victims’/Survivors’ Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System.
*Tempe Preparatory Academy faculty
Tyler Wall School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2009) (co-chair), ASU
Dissertation: “War-Nation: Military and Moral Geographies of the Hoosier Homefront.”
*Associate Professor, Eastern Kentucky University (University of Tennessee as of Fall
2017)
PhDs Completed (Committee Member) (All at ASU, unless otherwise indicated)
Melinda Alexander School of Geographical Sciences, (Fall 2014), ASU
Dissertation: “Belonging With the Lost Boys: The Mobilization of Audiences and Volunteers at a
Refugee Community Center in Phoenix, Arizona.”
Randall Amster School of Justice Studies (Spring 2002), ASU
Dissertation: “Patterns of Exclusion, Forces of Resistance: Urban Sidewalks, National Forests, and the
Contested Realms of Public Space.”
Cinthya Bejarano School of Justice Studies (Summer 2001), ASU
Dissertation: “A Mosaic of Latino Cultures: Young Lives at the Crossroads of Sameness and Difference.”
Naomi Bellot School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2009), ASU
Dissertation: “Gender Vulnerabilities in the Caribbean: A Focus Upon Indigenous Kalinago (Carib)
Women in Bataka, Dominica.”
Neslihan Cevik Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics (Summer 2010), ASU
Dissertation: “Religious Revival in Modern Turkey: Muslim, The New Muslim Entrepreneurs, and Sites
of Hybridity.”
Chantal Figueroa Organizational Leadership, Policy, & Development (Summer 2014) U. of Minnesota
“State of Terror, States of Mind: Gender, Mental Health and Systems of Care in Guatemala City.”
Everardo Garduño Dept. of Anthropology (Fall 2005), ASU
“From Invented to Imagined and Invisible Communities: Mobility, Social Networks and Ethnicity among
the Yumans of Baja California.”
Gail Gibbons School of Social Work (Fall 2006), ASU
Dissertation: “Twenty-five Years Later: A Comparative Study of the Socioeconomic Integration of
Vietnamese Refugees in Arizona.”
Anneliese M Harper School of Human Communication (Spring 1996), ASU
Dissertation: “The Impact of Immigration on Rural Guatemalan Women Ways of Speaking (Gossip)”
Khaleel Husssaini Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics (Spring 2008), ASU
“Immigrant Adaptation Among Mexican Students in the Southwest: Understanding Differences Among
Fifth Graders’ Consumption Norms of Alcohol, Cigarettes, and Marijuana.”
Atsuko Kawakami Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics (Spring 2012), ASU
“Aging and Identity Among Japanese Immigrant Women.”
Heather Kuhn School of Public Health (Spring 2005) (External Reader) Harvard University
Dissertation: “Health Profile of Farm workers and Interface of Workers with Healthcare in Imperial
County, California: A Qualitative Analysis.”
Brenda Ohta Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics (Spring 2008), ASU
Dissertation: “Determinants of Care for Medicare Recipients at the End of Life: Utilization and Decision
Making in the Acute Care Hospital.”
John Rosinbum Department of History, ASU (Spring 2014), ASU
“A Crisis Transformed: Refugees, Activists and Government Officials in the United States and Canada
during the Central American Refugee Crisis.”
Aundrea Janaé Snitker Women & Gender Studies (Spring 2016) ASU
Dissertation: “Constructing Masculinities and the Role of Stay-at-Home Fathers: Discussions of Isolation,
Resistance and the Division of Household Labor.”
Emily Skop Department of Geography (Spring 2002), ASU
Dissertation: “The Saffron Suburbs: Asian Indian Immigrants Community Formation in Metropolitan
Phoenix.”
Andrea Vest Family and Human Development, Sanford School (Fall 2014), ASU
Dissertation: “Latino Adolescents’ Organized Activities: Understanding the Role of Ethnicity and Culture
in Shaping Participation.”
Paloma Elizabeth Villegas Dept. of Sociology and Equity Studies (Summer 2012) University of Toronto
Dissertation: “Assembling and (re)marking migrant illegalization: Mexican migrants with precarious
status in Canada.”
Arely Zimmerman Department of Political Science, (Spring 2010) UCLA
Dissertation: “Contesting Citizenship: Identity, Rights, and Participation across Borders, Central
Americans in Los Angeles.”
Qualifying Examinations/Defenses only (All at ASU, unless otherwise indicated)
Eugenio Arene Educational Policy Analysis, School of Education
Neel Bhattacharjee Dept. of Geography
Terna Gbasha School of Justice and Social Inquiry
Estye Fenton Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Northeastern University)
Mei Lei School of Public Affairs
Chara Price Family and Human Development, Sanford School, ASU
Elizabeth (Lisa) Reber School of Social Transformation, ASU
M.A. Theses Completed (Chair)
Cherie Espinoza School of Justice Studies (Fall 2000), ASU
Thesis: “Education for Extinction: Protecting Our Roots from Arizona English-Only Initiative.”
Dulce Medina Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics (Summer 2011), ASU
Thesis: “Return Migration: Modes of Incorporation for Mixed Nativity Households in Mexico”
Emily Sawyer Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics (Spring 2009) ASU (co-chair)
Thesis: “The Adoption of Biomedicine into Quechua Cosmology of Health and Illness: Treatment-
Seeking Behavior in an Indigenous Ecuadorian Community.”
Cecilia Martinez-Vasquez School of Justice Studies (Summer 2005), ASU
Thesis: “Identity Formation Among Salvadoran Youth of the 1.5 and Second Generation.”
M.A. Theses Competed (Committee Member) (All at ASU, unless otherwise indicated)
John Abiel Benítez Department of Geography (Summer 2002), ASU
Thesis: “The Hispanic Protestant Landscape in Mesa, AZ.”
Melissa Carpenter Dept. of English/ Comparative Literature (Spring 2001), ASU
Thesis: “También somos madres: Militancy and Maternity in Latin American
Testimonios.”
Aurelia de La Rosa Aceves Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics (Spring 2011), ASU
Thesis: “Phoenix’s Place for the Homeless: Stories from the Maricopa County Human Services Campus.”
Mario Escobar Department of Spanish (Fall 2011), ASU
“Globalización, violencia y solidaridad: prácticas discursivas eurocentroamericanas y chicanas.”
Miriam Hilin Department of Sociology (Spring 2005), ASU
“Immigration Law and the Family Stability of Mexican Undocumented Immigrants.”
Juan Esteban Mejía Aguilar Estudios de Población, *Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico (Summer 2014)
“Migrantes Desaparecidos: Una Búsqueda Interminadble.”
Robert Miller School of Architecture (Spring1998), ASU
Final Project: “ Redesingning the INS Building to Accommodate the Social and Cultural Diversity of
Immigrants.”
Paul Ara Nersessian Department of Religious Studies (Summer 2002), ASU
Thesis: “Borderlands Scholarship.”
Reena Patel Global Technology and Development (ASU East) (Summer 2003), ASU
Thesis: “The Re-Enforcement of Traditional Gender Roles in the Technology Sector: A Case Study of
Female Engineers in India.”
Chara Price Family and Human Development, Social and Family Dynamics (Fall 2012), ASU
“Sibling Behaviors and Mexican Origin Adolescents’ After-School Activity Participation.”
Emily Skop Dept. of Geography (Summer 1997), ASU
Thesis: “Segmented Paths: The Geographic and Social Mobility of Mariel Cuban Exiles.”
Honors Theses Completed (Director)
Michelle Brady School of Justice Studies (Fall 2000), ASU
Thesis: “The Stalker: A Creative Project.”
Chrisanne Gultz School of Politics and Global Studies (Spring 2014), ASU
“The Media Construction of Undocumented Immigration as a National Crisis”
Sean McKenzie Departments of Political Science & Spanish (Spring 2008), ASU
“Formation of Perceptions of Migration Among Wives and Mothers Left Behind in Rural Honduras.”
Magdalena Valenzuela School of Justice Studies (Spring 2000), ASU
Thesis: “A System Flawed: The Death Penalty in the United States.”
Honors Theses Completed (Committee Member)
Anna Fairbanks Bethancourt Department of English (Spring 2011), ASU
“Consolidating Migrant Identity in Arizona: Newcomers and a State’s Need for Social Empathy.”
Loredana Cuatro Nochez School of Languages and Linguistics, *Griffith University, Australia (Summer 2007)
Thesis: “Salvadorian migrant: A case study to investigate their schooling experience, cultural identity and
their language maintenance in (Queensland) Australia.”
Falynn Glickstein School of Justice Studies (Spring 2004), ASU
Honor’s thesis: “Killings of the Women in Juarez.”
Brenna Gromley Department of History (Spring 2008), ASU
“Battling Neighbors: The United States Response to Honduran-El Salvador “Soccer War.”
Lauren Kerchenko Department of History (Fall 2000), ASU
Thesis: “From the Ukraine to the US: Immigrant Women and Assimilation.”
Haley McInnis Sociology (Spring 2013), ASU
“The Role of Religious Organizations in Progressive Social Movements: Local Churches and Their Response to
Senate Bill 1070.”
Michelle Speck Dept. of Anthropology (Spring 2001), ASU
Thesis: “Mexican Immigrant Women.”
Other Undergraduate Mentoring (All at ASU)
Lea Fordyce B.A. Obama Scholar Mentorship Program, 2013-2014
William McDonald B.S. Research Apprenticeship, School of Politics & Global Studies, 2013
Mauro Whiteman B.S. Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Fall 2012
Christy Garcia B.S. Research Apprenticeship, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Fall 2007
Vanessa Tucker B.S. Research Apprenticeship, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Fall 2007
Joshua Whistler B.S. Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, 2004-05
Olivia Reyes B.S. Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, 2004-05
Sonia Anaya B.S. Research Apprenticeship, School of Justice Studies, Fall 2003
Malea Chavez B.S. Research Apprenticeship, School of Justice Studies, Fall 1998
Panels, Boards and Related
--Advisory planning board, “Developing a 21st Century US Immigration Agenda,” CMS, New York, 2016
--Advisory council member, Immigrant Integration: Assessing and Improving the Collective Response of
the Catholic Church in the United States Panel, Center for Migration Studies, New York, 2014-
--Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Washington, D.C. “Women Immigrants in the New Destinations:
Religion’s Role in Facilitating Incorporation and Improving Well-Being,” 1/2009-2011.
--United Nations Development Program (UNDP). San Salvador, El Salvador. Contributor to Report, 12/04-04/05.
--Annie E. Casey Foundation. Participant, Consultative Session on Transnational Families, September 23rd, 2002
--Center for the Common Good, Vesper Society, Oakland, CA. Research Consultant, Immigration Project,
4/932/94
--University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, Facultade de Letras, Advisor/Consultant, 1993 (Summer)
--Joint Committee on International Migration, Refugee Resettlement, and International Cooperative
Development, Sacramento, CA. Research Coordinator, 9/89-1/91
--Evaluation, Training and Management Co., Sacramento, CA. Consultant, Project: Rehabilitation
programs in low-income communities, 1/90-12/90.
--Casa de la Cultura, Ministry of Culture, Managua, Nicaragua Assistant Coordinator, 5/85-9/85.
--LULAC, Los Angeles, Program Development Assistant, 9/83-9/84.
Professional Service (*denotes elected)
American Sociological Association
2016-2017 Member, Committee on the Status of Women
2016-2017 Member, Committee on Nominations, Family Section
2016-2017 Chair, Founders’ Award Committee, Latino/a Section
2015-2016 Chair, Public Sociology Award Committee, International Migration Section
2014-2015 Member, William J. Goode Book Award Committee, Family Section
2013-2014 Member, Lewis A. Coser Award Committee, Theory Section
2013-2014 Founders Award Selection Committee, Latino/a Section
2013-2014 Vice-President elect*; Vice-President, 2014-2015; Past Vice-President, 2015-2016;
Program Committee 2015 Meetings
2012-2013 Chair, Article Award Committee, International Migration Section
2010-2013 Member-at-large, ASA Council.*
Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline sub-committee
Minority Fellowship Program Advisory Board (Council Liaison)
2010-2011 Chair, Awards Committees and Chair, Career Award Committee, Latino/a Section
2010 Member, NSF/ASA Postdoctoral Fellowship Review Committee (also in 2012)
2009-2010 Member, Committee on Nominations, Family Section
2007-2008 Member, Awards Committee, Latino/a Section
2007-2009 Member, ASA Committee on Nominations*
2006-2008 Member, Program committee for the Annual Meetings (& author-meets-critics selections)
2005-2006 Chair, Latina/o Section.* (Chair-elect, 2004-2005).
2003-2004, 2004-2005 Member, Thomas and Znaniecki Award Committee, International Migration Section.
2003-2006 Council Member, International Migration Section.*
2002-2004 Member, Program committee for the Annual Meetings.
Latin American Studies Association
2017 International Migration Section Article Award Committee member 2009-2010 Diskin Distinguished Lecture and Diskin Dissertation Award Selection Committee member.
2009-2010 Co-chair, Migration and Latin American Diasporas Track, for 2010 meetings, Toronto
2007-2009 Co-chair, Cross-border Studies and Migration Track, for 2009 meetings, Rio de Janeiro
2004-2006 Council member, Section on Gender.*
2002-2003 Co-chair, Central American Section.*
2000-2002 Council member, Central American Section.*
Pacific Sociological Association
2012-2013 Member, Distinguished Scholarship Award committee
2004-2007 Member (elected). Committee on Committees, Southern Region.*
Society for the Study of Social Problems
2004-2005 Chair, Committee on Committees (one year replacement).
2004 Member, Program Committee for the Annual Meeting.
2002-2005 Member, Committee on Committees.*
2001-2002 Chair, Minority Fellowship Selection Committee.
2001 Site visit for Social Problems Editorial Office, Summer.
2000-2001 Chair-elect and Member. Minority Fellowship Selection Committee.
1998-1999 Member, Lee Founders Award Committee.
Sociologists for Women in Society
Member, Mainstream Team (media contact) 2009-
Editorial/Advisory Boards (Current) (Journals)
American Behavioral Scientist, 9/2009-
Contexts, 1/2017-12/2019
Journal of Latin American Studies, International advisory board member,1/2014-
Latino Studies, 1/2001-
Population Research and Policy Review, 9/2015-
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 1/2017-12/2019
Studies in Social Justice, 1/2006-
TRACE (Travaux et Recherches dans les Amériques du Centre), CEMCA 9/2012-
Completed
American Journal of Sociology, Consulting editor, 9/2011-8/2013
American Sociological Review, 1/2009-12/2011 (also 1/2003-12/2005)
Gender & Society, 1/2013-1/2015 (also 1/2003-1/2005)
Journal of Developing Societies, Associate editor, 2002- 2005.
Journal of Developing Societies, Book Review Editor, 1995-2000.
Migraciones Internacionales, 2001-2010
Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 2001-2003
The Sociological Quarterly, 2008-2014
Editorial Boards (Current) (Encyclopedias, Series and Volumes)
Latina/o Sociology Series, New York University Press, 2013-
Latinos in the United States: Studies in Diversity and Change Series, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 8/2004- Global Migration and Social Change Series, Policy Press (University of Bristol), UK, 11/2016-
Completed
School of Advanced Research Press (Santa Fe, NM), 2007-2010
Immigration and Crime: Ethnicity, Race, and Violence, edited by Ramiro Martinez, Jr., and Abel
Valenzuela. New York University Press (2005).
Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia. Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol,
editors. Indiana University Press.
Selected other professional service
2017 Advisory Board, Migrant Children & Youth Project, Deborah Boehm and Susan Terrio (leads)
2017 Organizing committee member, “Country Conditions in Central America and Asylum Decision-
Making” Workshop, College of Law & Center for Latin American & Latino Studies, American
University, Washington DC January 12
2006-2012 Expert/member, Working Group on Global Childhood and Migration
2006 Faculty participant, Fourth Annual Summer Institute on International Migration, Center for
Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, June 19-23.
2002 “Hispanic Gendering of the Americas: Beyond Cultural and Geographical Boundaries.” National
Endowment for the Arts Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, Arizona State
University, June 17-July 19. (Institute faculty member.)
1998 Co-Chair. Immigration and Human Rights Working Group, Inter-University Program for Latino
Research. (IUPLR, based at the University of Texas, Austin.)
1997 Mentor. Southwest Institute for Research on Women. Summer Institute on Global Processes, Local
Lives: Comparative Approaches to Women’s and Area Studies. University of Arizona. 6/8-15.
Grant Reviews: Center for Engaged Scholarship (2017), NSF Law and Society Program (2005, 2007,
2008, 2013); NSF Social and Behavioral Sciences Program (1996, 2005, 2006, 2007); NSF Sociology
Program (2012, 2013, 2016, 2017), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2002,
2004, 2007, 2016); Foundation for Child Development, New York (1997); Louisiana Board of Regents’
Research Competitiveness Subprogram (2006); Israel Science Foundation (2007, 2010, 2016); Austrian
Science Fund (2010), National Humanities Center (2011), Russell Sage Foundation (2013, 2016), Sam
Houston State University Office of Sponsored Projects (2013).
Manuscript referee for book publishers: The University of Arizona Press, The University of California
Press, Columbia University Press, The University Press of Florida, The Johns Hopkins University Press,
School of American Research Press, New York University Press, University of Notre Dame Latino
Studies Institute, Oxford University Press, University of Pittsburg Press, Polity Press, Routledge, Rutgers
University Press, Springer, Stanford University Press, Temple University Press, Wadsworth Publishing
Tenure and promotion reviews: University of Alaska, SUNY Albany, Amherst College, University of
British Columbia, Brown University, Bucknell University, Columbia University, UC Berkeley, UC Santa
Cruz, UC Irvine, UCLA, Clemson University, Cornell University, CUNY, Dartmouth College, Drexel
University, Florida International University, Fordham University, Grinnell College, Harvard University,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois-Chicago, Indiana University, Iowa State
University, Kansas State University, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Michigan State University,
North Carolina State University, Northeastern University, University of Oregon, Oregon State University,
Pitzer College, Pomona College, Princeton University, Providence College; Texas A&M, University of
Texas at Austin, University of Toronto, Tufts University, University of San Francisco, University of South
Florida, University of Southern California, University of Utah, Wellesley College, Whitman College.
Program review: Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University (Graduate Program)
Service at the University of Kansas
2016-2017 Member, Personnel Committee, Department of Sociology
2016- Member, Search Committee for CLAS Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
2016-Member, Advisory Board, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2015- Member, Executive Committee, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Service at Arizona State University
University
2014 Southwest Borderlands Initiative Selection Committee (member)
2013-2016 Member, University Graduate Council
2012-2014 Co-convener, working group on Immigration Theory, Institute for Humanities Research
2012-2014 Co-organizer, Working group on Latin American Studies, Institute for Humanities Research
2012-2014 Member, Executive Board, Faculty Women’s Association
2012-2014 Outstanding Doctoral Mentor Committee, Graduate College
2012-2013 Member, Executive Board, Comparative Border Studies Center, School of Transborder Studies
2011-2012 President, Chicano and Latino Faculty and Staff Association
2009 Member, Personnel Committee, Dept. of Transborder, Chicano/a, & Latino/a Studies (Fall)
2007-2010 Member, Campus Environment Team
2006-2008 Faculty Liaison, Chicano & Latino Faculty and Staff Association/Faculty Women’s Association.
2006 Member, Advisory Board, Center for Latin American Research (Fall)
2006 Faculty panel participant, Social Science Graduate Student Association, April 21st.
2006 Panel judge, Graduate Students in Life, Earth, and Social Sciences Association, Feb 17th.
2006 Member, Personnel Committee, Asian Pacific American Studies Program.
2003-2004 Mentor, Faculty Development Program
2004-2005 Member, Search Committee (for director) Center for Latin American Studies,
2003-2004 Member, Steering Committee, School of Global Studies
2003 Keynote speaker, Sociology Club kickoff celebration. Department of Sociology, Nov. 18th.
2003 Sabbatical Review, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University West.
2003-2004 Member, Personnel Committee, Asian Pacific American Studies Program.
2001-2002 Member, Committee on the Status of Women.
2000- Member. Race and Ethnic Relations Doctoral Examination Committee, Department of Sociology.
1998-2001 Member, Executive Board, Committee on Law and the Social Sciences.
2000-2001 Member, Child and Family Services Advisory Board.
2000-2001 Member, Recruitment Committee. Asian Pacific American Studies Program.
Graduate College Representative in Dissertation Defenses: May 2002, September 2001, July 2000.
1999 Participant (and fund raising), First Conference on Central American Literature and Culture, April.
1999 Participant, “A Campus Climate for Diversity Summit.” (“Preparing for the University of the
Next Century.”) March 27th
1998-1999 Member, Search Committee, Department of Chicana/Chicano Studies.
1998-1999 Member, Search Committee, Department of Religious Studies.
1997-1999 Coordinator. Women in Latin America Working Group. Center for Latin American Studies.
1996-1997 Advisory Council, Center for Latin American Studies.
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
2013-2014 Member, Committee on Committees (elected)
2012 Search Committee member (for Social Science Dean)
2010-2011 Member, Dean’s Advisory Council
College of Public Programs
2001-2002 College of Public Programs Internal Grants Committee.
School of Social and Family Dynamics (2005-present)
2012- Associate Director
2007-2009; 2010-2012 Director, Graduate Studies (Sociology)
2006-2007 Graduate Committee (member).
School of Justice Studies (1996-2005)
Chair: Personnel Committee; Computer and Colloquium Committee
Member (multiple years): Policy Work Group, Graduate Committee, Personnel Committee, John P. Frank Lecture
Committee, Graduate Committee, Computer Committee, Recruitment Committee
Community Service and Public Presentations
2014 “Conversación sobre migración.” Centro Laboral, South Omaha, November 10th.
2014 Panel “Global Violence and Social Justice: A Conversation”, Tucson Festival of Books, March 15th.
2012 “The Effects of Migration on Those Who Stay in the Countries of Origin.” Foundation for Inter-
Cultural Dialogue, Tempe, AZ, December 5.
2008, 2009 Committee member, II Feria de la Pupusa, Unidos en Arizona/Comité Salvadoreño, Nov.
2007 Presentation to Wilson Elementary School students, Faculty Ambassadors Program, Nov 16th.
2006 Academic participant, Religious Convening, Interfaith Worker Justice, Phoenix Dioceses, 3/26-3/27.
2002 Presentation, ASU Escribe, Arizona State University Public History Program, Arizona Book Festival,
April 6th.
2001 Lecture on immigration. Phoenix Civitan Club, Phoenix Arizona. June 7th.
2000 Organizer and Chair. Feria Informativa de Servicios Sociales (Social Services Informational Fair
for Latino immigrants in the area), ASU Downtown Center. July 15th.
2000 Immigrants and Laborers. Presentation to the City of Mesa, Arizona Neighborhood Committee. May 25th.
8/90-12/93 Northern California Legal Services, Sacramento, CA. Legal Assistance and Refugee Project,
Assistant/Translator (Volunteer)
5/91- 8/92 Dixon Family Planning Services, Dixon, CA (Research Consultant)
Country conditions expert witness (pro bono) in multiple asylum and domestic violence cases of Central
American immigrants throughout the country, with specific focus on the detention cases of Central
American women in Artesia, Dilly, and Karnes, Texas.
Multiple local, regional, national and international media (radio, television and newspapers) interviews (in
English and Spanish).
Memberships
American Sociological Association
Latin American Studies Association
Sociologists for Women in Society
Eastern Sociological Society
Pacific Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Citizenship and Immigration Network, Law and Society Association
Red Internacional de Migración y Desarrollo
Association for the Sociology of Religion
Languages
Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
Fair knowledge of French and Italian.